Ron Korving wrote:
If you ask me, scaler type hinting should try to do some auto-conversion.
That way, the type hints would actually be useful.
While I like the idea of type hinting on scalars, I agree that it causes
issues. Using request data is the main issue. Its all strings.
The only way I see it working is if the hints converted the data and
checked if it "changed". So, "1" and 1 are "the same" so it does not
complain. Likewise, any number could be changed to a string. But
non-numeric strings changing to 0 would throw an error. That is the
main place where scalars cause issues.
That does bring up the question of why scalar as a hint is not supported.
function test (scalar $var) {
echo $var;
}
I would seem that would have made sense. Currently, that code throws:
Fatal error: Argument 1 passed to test() must be an object of class scalar
That is funny on its own.
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