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The case against static typing in PHP (2023)
The case against static typing in PHP
Later improvements in CPU speeds reduced the differences in performance to insignificant levels, and this gave rise to interpreted languages which, because there was no compilation phase, meant that any type checking had to be delayed until run time. Note also that unlike virtually every other programmer on the planet I do not have a separate class variable for each table column as I have found it far easier to leave the$_POST array intact on its journey from the HTML form to the database. For the new scalar type declarations introduced in PHP 7.0 an explicit choice was made to not accept null values to non-nullable arguments, but changing the existing behavior of internal functions would have been too disruptive at the time.
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