On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 21:23 +0000, Alain Williams wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:08:16PM +0100, Markus Fischer wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Pierre wrote: > > | That can be a good compromise and may make happy the cons camp. > > | However, I would not like to have "11an" returns 0 but raises an > > | error. I can live with "[0-1.]" being converted to integer or float as > > | it is the case now. Even I would rather prefer a strict hinting and > > | let the user of a method or function do the cast (for the reasons > > | explained numerous times in this thread). > > > > Having yet another way of conversion which is different from any > > existing one in PHP scares me really ... > > To accept 'foobar' as integer zero (as with current conversion) would make > a total nonsense of type hinting.
Yes, it would make it pointless. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
