On 28 July 2013 18:36, Robert Cummings <rob...@interjinn.com> wrote: > I debunked your original comments and you come back with more false claims > and subjective argumentation.
You debunked my comment that casting is impossible; I concede that I was wrong. But it is the only context where you are allowed to use 'int'. 'int' isn't a keyword in PHP, '(int)' is. And why? There is intval() after all. It's only to match C syntax. It's the same with new, protected, public, private, etc. keywords for classes, despite these not really being useful in a interpreted language. The idea is to catch these issues on compile time, which PHP doesn't have.[0] Your is_int() solution is correct, but it isn't exactly pretty. It's another example of 'working against the language'. > As > for why MediaWiki uses PHP... I guess that's what you get when you invent > something-- you get to choose the design and tools. I don't blame MediaWiki for using PHP. It makes pretty rational sense at the time it was created. And even if it was created today, it might have been PHP as well. I have often praised MediaWiki for its excellent PHP (also notice so does the article I linked to). [0] I know there are some systems that can compile PHP, but the primary objective of PHP is not to be compiled. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
