On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Nathan Rixham <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've reworded my original mail completely maybe this one will have more
> feedback (or not)
>
> question: Would anybody else like to see, or feel the need for, *optional*
> type hinting of variables and class properties in PHP?
>
I was involved on a thread on exactly this some weeks earlier. I (and
a few others, though I don't really remember specifics) would very
much appreciate the possibilities of proper code structure when
working with large teams that this could help provide :)
(As to your original proposal, multiple method signatures is something
I've come across a need for *occasionally*, though personally, I'm not
a big fan of the feature -- the one place I would like having it is
__construct().
Say, you've got an ORM class which is derived for usage:
class ORM
{
public function __construct(string $sPK)
{
// Fetch and populate based on PK
}
}
class Person extends ORM
{
public function __construct(int $iID)
{
// Fetch and populate based on PK
parent::__construct((string)$iID);
}
public function __construct(string $sNewName, string $sAddress)
{
parent::__insert(....);
}
}
Yes, I realise that this can be done with retrieving arguments and the
like, but for such purposes it's not the neatest solution
syntactically.)
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