> The 0.1 RFC version was mentioned a lot as a good compromise by many > people and had major support.
People keep saying this like it's a thing, but I and others are vehemently opposed to this as a solution. The only thing weak hints accomplishes is the illusion of safety without actually providing it. You can already perform lossy casts on your inputs. Weak hints, IMHO, is the worst available option and I know plenty of folks who agree with me. Any proposal to the scalar hints problem that doesn't definitively error out in the `(int) "apple"` case is a non-starter for me; I believe such solutions are disingenuous at best and dangerous at worst. I wish people would stop suggesting that there was universal support for weak hints. There wasn't, and I suspect this dialogue was only avoided because the proposal gave a good option to those in favor of strict hints.
