Hi Alain, > On 2 Jan 2015, at 11:45, Alain Williams <a...@phcomp.co.uk> wrote: > > There is a 3rd camp: (c) > These are the language implementors, in particular 3rd parties eg HipHop. > These > do care if a variable is int 42 or string "42" because there are optimisations > to be made if they know that a value is really an int and not a string cleanly > convertable to an int.
Er, optimisations are not at all prevented by having implicit conversions. They still allow you to reason about types within a function, because types are converted. Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
