Hello Jason,

no. Object can be a classname, Class not.
The reason gettype returns "object" is becuase an instance of a class is an
object. In typehinting we deal with the class-types and for things like
reflection we need a typehint that accepts any class but nothing else.

marcus

Thursday, April 22, 2004, 2:15:01 AM, you wrote:

> Just a note,

> Would "Object" be more appropriate than "Class"?  The expected variable 
> type is an object (defined by a class), and the gettype() function returns
> 'object'..

> # php -r '$x=new stdclass(); var_dump(gettype($x));'
> string(6) "object"

> It may mean adding a new reserved word though.

> ~Jason



> At 4/22/2004 01:29 AM +0200, Marcus Boerger wrote:
>>Hello Andi,
>>
>>the patch is here. It's a bit outdated but shouldn't cause much
>>problems to apply after RC2. It allows "Class", "Array" but atm
>>misses "Resource".
>>
>>marcus
>>
>>Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 11:50:46 AM, you wrote:
>>
>> > At 03:29 PM 4/20/2004 -0400, George Schlossnagle wrote:
>>
>> >>On Apr 20, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Marcus Boerger wrote:
>> >>>>The problem with this is that that integer may well be a string when
>> >>>>you look at it.  There's no good way to do this past discriminating
>> >>>>between scalar, array and object (by type, of course).   I personally
>> >>>>think that that is fine (adding an array typehint would be nice).
>> >>>
>> >>>Somewhere at my server should be a patch for "array". For some reason
>> >>>i was too lazy to ask for that to commit again before RC1. I you still
>> >>>want this just ask Andi/Zeev again.
>> >>
>> >>Andi/Zeev,
>> >>
>> >>Thoughts on allowing array typehinting?
>>
>> > I don't have a problem with array type hinting but I want to roll RC2. I
>> > suggest we look at Marcus' patch after RC2 and see if it's small enough to
>> > allow the inclusion before 5.0.0.
>>
>> > Andi
>>
>>
>>
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