On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> You can do it like this. When an enum is defined: > > I'm not talking about implementation in the code of PHP engine. I'm talking > about writing code with these things that wouldn't produce fatal errors in > random places without you being able to prevent it and without checking > before each function call. Compiled languages deal with it easily because > they check these things on compile - if you try to send int variable where > BlahBlah type is expected, the compiler bails out and you know it's a > problem. Dynamic languages don't work that way.
except, that it could be handled by "thow new InvalidArgumentException()" but we don't allow exceptions in core -- Alexey Zakhlestin, http://twitter.com/jimi_dini http://www.milkfarmsoft.com/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
