On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:58 -0600, Brian Moon wrote: > I don't get it. We already have type hinting, just not for scalars. > The discussion seems to be about whether or not we should have it all. > But, the truth is, we have it. We half way have it. I fought for it to > be all or nothing back then and I still think it is half done that we > don't have scalar type hinting but we have array/object/class type > hinting. Talk about inconsistency. > > So, can we switch the mundane conversation from "should we have type > hinting" to "why don't we have scalar type hinting if we have non-scalar > type hinting?" That is the real conversation. Type hinting is here. > It is not going anywhere. Let's finish the job.
Yes. Atleast add a "scalar" type hint to differentiate from arrays and objects. A scalar type hint complies with PHP's way of not differentiating too much between strings, booleans, integers, and floats. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
