I have thought about this, using obects for all variables, but all of
the extra code amounts to alot in a large application, and when using
hundreds of small strings and integers scattered throughtout your
application, this would cause a serious performance drop.
On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 18:13 -0500, David Coallier wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2007 5:52 PM, Cristian Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2007/11/18, Derick Rethans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > I am actually thinking that it might be a good thing to add more and
> > > more. I know my quick hack isn't the best implementation though.
> >
> > Yes and it is an alternative and not a mandatory thing to use.. as long as :
> >
> > <?php
> >
> > function foo(int $num) {
> > return $num
> >
> > }
> >
> > foo("12345") // emit fatal error, NOT accept it as valid integer
> >
> > all is fine and Im all for it ;)
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> >
>
> I was thinking at something along the lines of objects also for instance:
>
> $i = new Integer(33);
>
> function foo(Integer $var) {
> }
>
> foo ($i); else it emits a fatal error. But also if you do
>
> $i = "Name"; that would emit a fatal error because the value is
> suposed to be an int. This might look a bit too much like java, but as
> an extension it could be something quite interesting I believe.
>
> String, Object, Integer, Scalar, Float and what else.
>
> So thinking of something like
>
> $string = new String("Foo");
> $string = "bar" or $string->setValue("Bar"); would do
>
> $float = new Float(4.242);
> $float->setValue('foobar'); // That emits an error
> $float->setValue(3.14159);
>
> echo $float; (__toString) or echo $float->getValue; to echo it's content/value
>
> and so on.
>
> Would that be "too" java-ish to be something considered in php6 ? ;-)
>
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