PHP5 what is the use case of type hiting in php

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In P开发者_JS百科HP5, type hinting is a specifying class name before object variable in a function parameters.

I know what is type hinting, but what is the exact use case in PHP5?

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Have a look at the examples in the documentation:

Failing to satisfy the type hint results in a catchable fatal error.

It helps to detect errors or wrong usage of functions.