Looks like they decided NOT to include the scalar type hint. https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54 https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54 Even better would be bool/float/in

Looks like they decided NOT to include the scalar type hint. https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54 https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54 Even better would be bool/float/int/string/func ref type hinting...