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. -- Alain Williams Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php Chairman of UKUUG: http://www.ukuug.org/ #include <std_disclaimer.h> -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
