> On 22 Oct 2014, at 22:31, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>> Are you opposed to the existence of ext/filter given it has
>> FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, a “primitive for handling type conversions”?
>
> FILTER_VALIDATE_INT is an option for a filter_var function, and it is
> not introducing any new rules for handling types in the engine.
Nor is this.
> What you are proposing is not like FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, it's like (int).
I don’t see the difference:
$x = filter_var(FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, $foo);
$x = to_int($foo);
They’re very similar, except the latter has slightly different rules, is
shorter, and if some people (possibly me) get their way, might throw an
exception.
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