Robert Silva wrote: > I think Marcus B's final comments in the original discussion are right on > track. > > Stab: I voted for NULL type hinted arguments before I voted against them. > > The main thing that changed my mind, is that in PHP there is no such thing > as a NULL object. I came to the conclusion that PHP wasn't broken, my > programming style/code was. > > My opinion is that they should stay as they are now although personally. > > Now with that said, I do think there needs to be a method to allow a type > hinted parameter to be optional (but not necessarily null). That's what I'm asking for. :-) I'm not asking for null objects, just an optional parameter that must be an object or a "null" reference. All OO languages I've ever programmed had this kind of reference(Java, C++, Delphi, etc.)
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