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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:07:55 -0600
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To: Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [INFO] Basic Scalar Types
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

I don't think agreeing to any of the three proposals out there is the
best option. I personally think there are viable options out there
that have not yet been heavily discussed.

For instance, everyone and their dog has complained about PHP's overly
promiscuous type juggling. This is one reason scalar types proposals
are having issues; we don't want to have the same promiscuous type
juggling on these scalar types so we are defining new rules. Instead,
why don't we fix at least some of those conversions first?