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To: Vesa Kaihlavirta <vpkaihla@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Strict comparisons
From: danack@basereality.com (Dan Ackroyd)

Hi Vesa,

On 19 September 2016 at 14:04, Vesa Kaihlavirta <vpkaihla@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My idea is to add a strict_comparisons declaration that you can add at the
> beginning of a file in the same way as strict_types.
>
> Please take a look and let me know if this would be worth a more official
> RFC.

I think it deserves an RFC.

One thing that might make people hesitant about this, is that it's
likely that you would want to have the occasional weak comparison in a
file.

However that should mostly covered by just adding a cast where needed
presumably? e.g. like:

$foo = '5 apples';

if ((int)$foo == 5) {
    echo "eh, close enough";
}

cheers
Dan