Guys, you probably are too deep into the discussion that you haven't noticed an elephant Zeev has put into the room. When the RFC procces was put in place there was a rule outlined - if core devs decide to reject, it's rejected. And as Zeev said last time core dev team decided that there will be no strict typing in PHP, period (btw, Zeev thanks for reminding that). It's open source - if you want it badly, fork, patch and have your party with black jack and girls.
Zeev i have just have one question - is it worth trying to get the type hinting "the PHP way" (that converting thing that errors only on really bad missmatches like asking for int and getting an array or object)? I understand the argument that if rules of conversion are not changed, then basically not much is changed. But from the code writing prespective it becomes easier, because with converting type hint you do not need to make explict conversions all over the code - it's done at calll time and that simplifies things, sometimes a lot. Second - the reflection then does not rely on phpdoc to get the types (and i remember there was an issue with opcode caching and phpdoc being stripped and so not avaliable). It good to have array and object hints, but i miss the integer/string/boolean/double hints more times than i want to admit really :-)
