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On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 03:30:35PM -0700, Aaron Priven wrote:
> I don???t have a problem with the proposal per se, but it???s hard for
> me to believe that inferring what type a value should be from its
> initial assignment is going to be reliable.
>
> Surely there???s a lot of extant code like
>
> if ($condition) {
> $flag = $x eq $y;
> } else {
> do_something();
> $flag = 1;
> }
> $count+= $flag;
>
> Is $flag a boolean or an integer?
I'd expect that It Depends.
But I'd expect $count to be an integer, because + always returns a
number, just like it would be if you say this:
$car_contents = '11 clowns';
$count += $car_contents;
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