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.)
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