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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding "numeric" type hint
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de (Christoph Becker)

Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Ryan Pallas <derokorian@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I agree with Stanislav here, if you want to accept any type of number, its
>> easy enough to add your own checking to do that with the wonderful
>> is_numeric. And for simplicity, make an invalidArgument method that you can
>> call after manually checking if arguments are wrong: *http://3v4l.org/r0qO0
>> <http://3v4l.org/r0qO0>* Works for all versions this tool runs as well.
> 
> The issue is that weak mode type hint is *not* weak at all. It forces to
> have
> machine native type rather than it's data form.

A solution for this issue has been proposed by the "Big Integer Support"
RFC which has been withdrawn.  It's too late for PHP 7.0 to re-open it,
but it might be reasonable to to so for PHP 7.1.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker