# Strict typing - Thread: https://externals.io/message/49409 - Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/49409 - Started by Zeev Suraski on 2010-08-12T07:18:37+00:00 - Messages: 1 - Reply by email to internals@lists.php.net - More for agents: search with https://externals.io/search.md?q={query} · JSON API at https://externals.io/api · documentation at https://externals.io/llms.txt --- ## #49409 — Zeev Suraski — 2010-08-12T07:18:37+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/49409#49409 At 04:02 12/08/2010, Josh Davis wrote: >What would be interesting to see is what people think of Derick's >latest proposal allowing both the strict typechecking and the more >sensible "weak typing" There's nothing new about it, it's been on the table for around half a year now. Everyone who opposes strict typing on grounds that it's an alien feature to PHP(*) doesn't see any advantages in this suggestion, as everything that's bad in strict typing remains on the table. If there were only two options left on earth, strict typing and strict+auto-conversion, I'd vote for going with just strict. Zeev (*) http://wiki.php.net/rfc/typecheckingstrictandweak - 'Why is strict type checking problematic'