I don't think any junior-middle php developer with understand how "(int)" works.
Just make a test and see how many will answer (int)'asd' with 1.

Regards
Thomas


S.A.N wrote on 15.01.2015 22:18:

> The main advantage of the two syntaxes:
> 
> 1. Strict
> function bar(int $num){}
> 
> 2. Weak
> function bar((int) $num){}
> 
> Any junior-middle PHP developer, seeing this syntax in the code can 
> understand how it works, without studying the documentation and without your 
> complex conversion tables.
> 
> Explicit is better than implicit, is the motto Python, here it is very 
> relevant.
>

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