PHP types are not type hints but type declarations

[Girgias]

PHP enforces types at runtime so they are not hints but actual proper declarations.

The PHP manual also refers to them as type declarations.

[florentpoujol]

I agree with the term "type declaration" of course, but don't we call them "typehint" all the time ?

At least in userland space I have the feeling we always use "typehint" instead of "type declaration".

And personally that is what I have always ever called them.