The accepted scalar type hints RFC's

Mar 19th 2015

As you may know, the Scalar Type Wars are over. It has been decided that we will have scalar type hints in PHP7.

Here's a nice short write up on the three related accepted RFC's by Er Galvao Abbott.

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