catch; ╺ E_STRICT notices have been reclassified to E_WARN and E_NOTICE; ╺ Fatal errors are or inherit the class "Error"; ╺ Syntax parsing errors generate "ParseError"; ╺ "Error" and "Exception" implement interface "Throwable".
and PHP_INT_MAX accepted. † Non-numeric strings not accepted. Numeric strings with trailing characters are accepted, but produce a notice. ‡ Only if it has a __toString method.
time in PHP 5 was memory allocation; ╺ Reduced number of allocations; ╺ Reduced memory consumption; ╺ Reduced number of indirect; ╺ Strings are refcounted.