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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net>, PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>, 
	Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What do we need strict scalar type hints for?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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On Feb 5, 2015 7:58 AM, "Stanislav Malyshev" <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> > Adding another concept, not changing the existing ones. And really,
> > it's just simplifying what is already present via is_<typename>()
> > runtime checks, making our lives a little bit easier.
>
> There's a very big difference between allowing to check types (and then
> do whatever you wish) and having functions throw fatal errors if types
> do not match.

Totally agree.

However, to be sure everyone understands it, you, as an user of a library
using strict mode, won't see it.

I agree that a library using strict and release untested code may be an
issue, but then it is a bug on the library itself, no biggie to fix.

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