On 13 Jul 2014, at 14:13, Jocelyn Fournier <jocelyn.fourn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually displaying a warning in E_STRICT but still doing the implicit cast > would not change the function signature. Sure. What I meant was more that we’re changing expectations based on php.ini/variable/etc., and I’d rather it’s always consistent. > > Indeed :) But I have also performances in mind. Usually (at least in HACK / > Zephir), "type hinting" is used to help the compiler optimize the code. If > this type hinting could be useful to help my code working in a futur > PHP->PECL compiler, or help the PHP opcache to do some optimisations, I'd > like to use "type hinting" as much as possible. > > But with the above limitation, I'll not be able to do so. I think this type hinting wouldn’t hinder optimisation. Casting means that it’s still guaranteed that the value you get is of the requested type. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
