On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:23:17AM +0300, Arvids Godjuks wrote:
> I'm +1 for this syntax
>
> function int myfunction(int $param)
> {
> return $someint;
> }
>
> C/C++ like, easy to understand
+1 -- least confusion to most people.
Taking it a bit further, if the function returns a reference (eg to its
argument):
function int &myfunction(int &$param)
Alternative could be:
function &int myfunction(int &$param)
But I think that the first form is better.
> And bad idea about making a return type "function" - looks very useless and
> will not be used a lot. Work with objects with methods returning an object
> of some kind, then you can do
>
> $object->method()->method2()->method3();
>
> P.S. I think this thread should be merged with function param type hinting
> because they come together and should be implemented together,
Sam has done much work on param type hinting, we should thank him for his hard
work.
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