On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 06:09:22PM +0100, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>
> On 14 Jul 2014, at 18:01, Alain Williams <a...@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > But if you have:
> >
> > function foo(int $a) {
> > ...
> > $a = 3 / 2;
> > }
> >
> > What do you expect $a to contain ? I would suggest integer 1.
>
> I’d expect (and I think most people new to PHP would expect) what 3/2 would
> be in normal maths, i.e. the fractional value 0.666…. Actually, this makes a
> good case for return type hinting, as you could ensure you’d get an integer
> result here. (But that is another matter.)
I trust that you meant 1.5 not 0.666.
I would have expected 1 - since it appears, from the code, that $a should only
contain integers.
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