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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:19:37 +0200
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To: Daniel Lowrey <rdlowrey@php.net>
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: I quit.
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rdlowrey@gmail.com [mailto:rdlowrey@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Daniel Lowrey
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 5:13 PM
> To: internals@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: I quit.
>
> > The 0.1 RFC version was mentioned a lot as a good compromise by many
> > people and had major support.
>
> Any proposal to the scalar hints problem that doesn't definitively error
> out in
> the `(int) "apple"` case is a non-starter for me; I believe such solution=
s
> are
> disingenuous at best and dangerous at worst.

Weak type hints the way Andrea proposed them in v0.1 actually did not accep=
t
"Apple" as an int (wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hints?rev=3D1420209410):

"=E2=80=A0Non-numeric strings not accepted. Numeric strings with trailing c=
haracters
produce a notice."

=E2=80=A0 applied to both int and float type hints in case of string inputs=
.

Judging by both this and Anthony's message from a couple of days ago giving
the same Apple example, perhaps v0.1 wasn't clearly understood.

Zeev