On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Ilia Alshanetsky <i...@prohost.org> wrote: > Anthony, > > My concern with this type of patch is that what you are proposing are > not really hints, they are forced casts. As such they modify the data > potentially leading to data loss. This patch specifically tries to overcome this problem of the previous version. It will not accept input which will lead to a data loss on cast. The only exception is passing "123abc" to an int hint, which will cast to 123 and throw a notice. This is also my only point of critique: I'd prefer to be stricter here and go all the way to a recoverable fatal error.
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