Thank you. As long as a feature is useful, why not add it? Just because some people don't find it useful, this is not at all a reason to completely discard the idea, especially when the only argument is "well PHP doesn't need that so just use another language".
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 20:23 +0100, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > > > When the type hint says I want an integer, then only integer should be > > > accepted; no casting should be done. It may give predictable results > > > > Why people that want Java just don't use Java I wonder? PHP never was a > > strict > > static typed language. > > Broken record perhaps? I am getting a bit tired of this "just use Java > argument", it's perhaps even a bit arrogant. From what I read there is > plenty of people that want type hints for static types - there's a few > patches out there, it doesn't slow down the general case. So why should > we *not* add it? (And yes, I changed my mind) > > regards, > Derick > > -- > Derick Rethans > http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
