Begin forwarded message:
> From: Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> > Subject: Re: PHP RFC: Scalar type-hinting with cast > Date: 11 August 2014 13:46:05 BST > To: Benjamin Morel <benjamin.mo...@gmail.com> > > > On 11 Aug 2014, at 13:41, Benjamin Morel <benjamin.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I’m a strong supporter of this feature request, so first of all thank you >> for taking over the RFC! >> >> I noticed that there is a use-case that is not present in the RFC and should >> IMO be explicitly documented: the strings of digits with leading zeros. >> >> I think these should “pass” when type-hinted as int: >> “0123” => 123 >> “-0123” => -123 >> >> Note that the conversion should be done in base 10, not 8 (octal) as this is >> what the explicit (int) type-casting does: >> echo 0123; // 83 >> echo (int) “0123”; // 123 >> >> I hope you can add this to the RFC. > > The patch as it stands does support this, and they are base 10. PHP doesn’t > consistently deal with bases the same as it stands, however. I’d like to fix > that at some point. > > Also, the RFC is effectively dead at this point. I will retire it once I have > a better replacement. > > -- > Andrea Faulds > http://ajf.me/ -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
