I was thinking something more along the lines of simply throwing an error if, say, (int) $a != $a.... *if *$a is defined as an integer.
--Kris On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:16 PM, John Crenshaw <johncrens...@priacta.com>wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kris Craig [mailto:kris.cr...@gmail.com] > > > > @Richard I think you made a very good point. Should we treat a float => > int mismatch the same as we would a string => int mismatch, or should the > former fail more gracefully? I can see good arguments for both. > > > > --Kris > > I'm beginning to think that the type hinting question is too closely > related to the dirty secrets of type juggling to resolve them separately. > You may have to either discard consistency, or else fix the problem of > silent bizarre conversions at the same time ('foo'==0, '123abc'=123). > Fixing the conversions is a BC break though. > > John Crenshaw > Priacta, Inc. >
