On 3 June 2010 18:25, Josh Davis <php...@gmail.com> wrote: > seems that mysqlnd experiments in using MySQL's binary protocol for > all queries and not just prepared statements [1] didn't materialize.
I have to correct myself here, the MYSQLI_OPT_INT_AND_FLOAT_NATIVE option did materialize, so native typing through mysqlnd only seems to require one call to $mysql->options() On 3 June 2010 18:32, Lukas Kahwe Smith <m...@pooteeweet.org> wrote: > Thats all fine and dandy if the ultimate goal is to turn PHP into a > strictly typed language and of course if 90% of the API's you talk to > require strict typing, then the question becomes why even use a dynamic > language to begin with? One of PHP's strength is that if you don't want to bother with variable types you don't have to, but if you want to then you should be able to without an incessant use of userspace validation. I'm glad that PHP lets me concatenate an integer and a string (or even echo an integer for that matter) but at the same time if I'm using an "int" typehint then I strongly hope that all that will get through will be an "int" variable. I see typehints as a sanity check, to be used in situations where I know that the only way for the wrong type to get passed is because of a bug. So why PHP? Because it allows to write tons of stuff very easily. And wherever you want more control you can have it too. As Ferenc Kovacs pointed out, saying that wanting strict typehints means wanting to turn PHP into a strictly typed language is as absurd as claiming that proponents of a more relaxed typehinting would lead to eliminating the integer type altogether because "1" + "2" behaves as expected anyway. I'm sure that nobody wants to go that far on either end of the spectrum. This isn't about ideology, this is about practicality. A strictly typed PHP is impractical. And for me, an integer typehint that doesn't differentiate between strings and integers is impractical. -JD -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
