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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Reviving scalar type hints
From: francois@php.net (=?utf-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois_Laupretre?=)

Hi Larry,

Thanks for trying to sort this out. This is very valuable work.

> De : Larry Garfield [mailto:larry@garfieldtech.com]
>
> Anthony, can you expand here at all about the practical benefits of
> strong-typing for variable passing for the compiler?

I will let Anthony reply as the question is for him, but can you precide =
which compiler you're talking about ? The compiler layer of the PHP =
interpreter, or a future AOT compiler generating native executable code =
from PHP code ? I guess the reply will be different in both cases.

Regards

Fran=C3=A7ois