unread
Sounds acceptable to me, that's along the lines of the 3rd option
which appears to be getting the most traction. I'd also no conversion of
arrays to scalars to that list.
Arrays to scalars already fail. See
http://wiki.php.net/rfc/typecheckingstrictandweak#current_behavior_of_zend_parse_parameters
<?php
var_dump(strtoupper(array("abc")));
gives:
Warning: strtoupper() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in ...
on line 2
NULL
To respond to Jordi Boggiano, I am not advocating changing the behavior of
cast, only of internal functions' argument parsing.
Also, I think it doesn't make sense to allow "17.", but disallow "17.5"
when an int is expected. See floating point arithmetic and equality
comparisons.
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Gustavo Lopes