On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:23:17AM +0300, Arvids Godjuks wrote:
> I'm +1 for this syntax
> 
> function int myfunction(int $param)
> {
>      return $someint;
> }
> 
> C/C++ like, easy to understand

+1 -- least confusion to most people.

Taking it a bit further, if the function returns a reference (eg to its 
argument):

        function int &myfunction(int &$param)

Alternative could be:
        function &int myfunction(int &$param)

But I think that the first form is better.

> And bad idea about making a return type "function" - looks very useless and
> will not be used a lot. Work with objects with methods returning an object
> of some kind, then you can do
> 
> $object->method()->method2()->method3();
> 
> P.S. I think this thread should be merged with function param type hinting
> because they come together and should be implemented together,

Sam has done much work on param type hinting, we should thank him for his hard 
work.

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