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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 05:41:40 +0900
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Design by Contract and scalar types ...
From: yohgaki@ohgaki.net (Yasuo Ohgaki)

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Hi Lester,

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:52 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> Much has been made of adding a class string to handle all the extra
> unicode processing, but I am now thinking that a properly exposed string
> and integer class which has the ability to assign constraint checks does
> make sense. Then use of an integer value on a 32bit platform can error
> when the actual value is too big for the target use. THAT is what strict
> type checking is about!
>

Scalar may have object capability.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/autoboxing

IIRC, this wasn't popular, but people's mind may change as time goes by.
It does not cover your requirement, but it may be extended the way it does.

Regards,

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Yasuo Ohgaki
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