On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 at 12:26, Dik Takken <dik.tak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, to get this crystal clear, this is my understanding of what you are > proposing for passing null to a non-nullable function parameter > (hopefully my ASCII art will come through ok): > > > which | strict_types | PHP 8.0 | PHP 8.1 | PHP 9 > ----------|---------------|------------|------------|---------- > user | 1 | TypeError | TypeError | TypeError > internal | 1 | TypeError | TypeError | TypeError > user | 0 | TypeError | TypeError | coerced > internal | 0 | coerced | Deprecated | coerced > > Is this correct? > Yes, that's correct... although I'd be doing this for 8.2, to avoid TypeError exceptions being introduced for non `strict_types` scripts in 9.0. This is based on the feedback from the quiz and here; so type coercion from NULL would continue to work, like coercion from the other variable types (string/int/float/bool). Craig
