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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Scalar Type Hints v0.4
From: mike@php.net (Michael Wallner)

On 17/02/15 23:03, Sara Golemon wrote:

> 1) Introduce scalar types for primitives: bool, int, float, string,
> resource, object (we already have array)
> 1a) Introduce meta-types as pre-defined unions (we can add custom
> unions in a later rfc).  A possible list may be as follows (again, we
> can argue what's in this list separately):
> * mixed: any type
> * scalar: (null|bool|int|float|string)

Hold on, usually, type checking functions don't identify NULL as scalar.


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Mike