On Thu, February 23, 2012 1:21 pm, Kris Craig wrote:
> 1. Is strict typing something that we should seriously consider
> implementing at some point in the foreseeable future?
No.
If you want that, PHP is not the language for you, so just go use Java
and JSP.
I'm not being rude nor abusive: If anyone dislikes the way PHP works
at such a fundamental layer, they just shouldn't use it.
> 3. If toggleable, should this be defined at the config level, the
> script
> level, or both?
God no.
The insanity of dozens upon dozens of php.ini settings make
portability difficult enough already.
> of "sending" variables (JSON-encoded/decoded from a remote
> hub that he also
> wrote) with inconsistent types. For example, the "progress"
> key could be a
> multidimensional array, a string, NULL, a boolean, and in one
> rare case
> even an object pointer. But MOST of the time, it's an array,
switch (true){
case is_array($input): break;
case is_null($input): break;
case is_boolean($input): break;
case is_string($input): break;
default:
//There is no object pointer in PHP, so I dunno what you are
talking about...
break;
}
Was that really that tricky?
> - It would probably be a fairly large undertaking to implement.
Monstrously large.
But feel free to try it yourself. :-)
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