Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE][RFC] Scalar Type Hinting with Cast

Stas Malyshev wrote (on 15/09/2014):
> It's not the issue here. Nobody wants 100% of functions to do the same,
> and everybody knows there will be exceptions when some functions can not
> accept all values covered by type, or can accept multiple types but only
> in certain situations, etc. etc. What we want is to have one set of
> rules (yes, again, not covering 100% of functions, both user and
> internal, but covering most of them in the same way) instead of two
> different sets of rules.

I agree that 100% is an unrealistic goal, but I don't think I've yet 
seen someone actually point at a documented set of rules that even 80% 
of current functions follow. I guess there is a default/normal usage of 
ZPP etc that most internal functions use, but I have yet to find the 
documentation on what this actually is (README.PARAMETER_PARSING_API 
lists the C types you have to use, but not the PHP types & values that 
can be provided by the user, or what happens if they don't).

Apologies if I'm missing something obvious here.

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]