Re: What do we need strict scalar type hints for?

From: Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:46:13 +0000
Subject: Re: What do we need strict scalar type hints for?
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Hi Dmitry,

> On 2 Feb 2015, at 20:43, Dmitry Stogov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I don't think we will implement strict semantic for operators.
> It's not going to be PHP anymore....
> $s = (string)$a . (string)$b;

There’s no need either: operators always produce a specific type (or one of a set of types) so it
doesn’t really cause a problem.

Though there are some improvements we could make. It’d be nice if ‘’ + 1 produced a notice,
that’s caught me out several times before.

Thanks.

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Andrea Faulds
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