On 11.08.2010, at 16:55, Ryan Panning wrote: > Now, changing the current implementation to "weak type hinting" would be more > confusing. Because the current syntax used for type hinting classes/arrays is > strict. If changed, you would need to specify that scaler types are weak but > classnames are strict and now you have a WTH moment.
actually for objects its fairly along the lines of what is being proposed with weak typing, since the type hints for objects do consider inheritance. so you do not need to pass in exactly the object that is type hinted, but instead you can also pass in any subclass (an integer is a float). anyway .. for the love of god, could be please stop arguing in circles, nothing .. really nothing that people brought forth pro/con any approach in regards to type checking/hinting whatever hasn't been mentioned on this list multiple times. please please please please .. read the RFC's on the wiki .. if there is something not mentioned there .. ask the author of the RFC why that is and see if they are willing to add it there and notify the list once. If the author in question is unwilling to add it .. then .. and only then bring it back to this list. regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith m...@pooteeweet.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
