> Ok, but a scalar becomes useful for a couple of important things. > Scalars are all displayable values, that can be stored in a db, > outputted, etc. The scalar type hint prevents errors related to objects, > resources, and arrays attempting to be stored in the db or echoed. True, but honestly I do not see a whole lot of use for this. In a word, it is very limited. _Too_ limited to be truly useful in my opinion. It is simple statistics; there is more need for specific types than scalars in general, when using type hinting.
I do agree that it is a good idea to allow for type hinting scalars in general, but it should not be considered a solution. It is more like a comfortable add-on. And to be frank, this really feels like a secondary price (bronze at most). If pressed I would go bold say that this really feels like a screw. A way of saying that we went out of our way to fix this feature that was limited by adding a seemingly useful attribute to it, but in the end still leaving the feature limited and not really fixing anything. Tomi Kaistila PHP Developer -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
