On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 08:27 +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> 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)
I like this better, I think this would just be a matter of ordering
arguments in the parser.
> 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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