> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lukas Kahwe Smith [mailto:m...@pooteeweet.org]
> Sent: 02 July 2009 14:05
> To: Ilia Alshanetsky
> Cc: Paul Biggar; PHP Internals; Derick Rethans; Stanislav Malyshev;
> Hannes Magnusson
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Flexible type hinting
>
>
> On 02.07.2009, at 15:02, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
>
> > Personally, I am uncertain about +int or -int in general, IMO that
> > compromise will eventually be identical to numeric an cause
> endless
> > confusion for the users between (+/-)int and int. The reason I
> used
> > a completely different name is to prevent confusion.
>
>
> I do not see the risk for confusion as being high.
> Like I said, I havent made up my mind on this proposal, however for
> now Paul mainly asked for feedback in the general concept, not
> necessarily on the syntax.
Interesting discussion. Not sure where I stand on this one, but I
definitely don't like the [+-]int syntax. Even before Paul's proposal
came out, though, I was thinking that I'd want to consider leveraging an
existing well-understood syntax, so I could write
function func(int $i)
for strict type checking, and
function func((int)$i)
for coercion aka casting (although now I've seen it written down I'm not
so sure! ;).
I don't see the need for another option beyond the current
syntax/behaviour -- in my opinion, anything else is documentation and
should be treated as such.
Cheers!
Mike
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