Hi!
is_* are the important functions, since they are the ones which most resemble the type hints under discussion. Up until now, anyone
Circular argument here.
implementing this in user-land would use is_int(). It makes perfect
No, you shouldn't do that - there's absolutely no reason to accept 1 and reject '1', unless you have some very rare and special circumstance. If you are using is_int for that, your code is wrong.
sense that type hints should mimic this behaviour. Not doing so would be very inconsistent, and so confusing.
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