On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Ilia Alshanetsky<i...@ilia.ws> wrote: > Paul's proposal is some part does not make sense because it allows weak type > hinting, which should not be used if you need type hinting. The whole idea > about type hinting is definition of strict interfaces, not loosely based > one. That's just my opinion, which admittedly I feel fairly strongly about.
No, the idea of type hinting is that you hint to the user about what type the interface expects. You have implemented "strong type checking" instead. I wonder that you cannot see the conflict between the term "type hinting" and "strict interfaces". I would be happier if you renamed your patch "optional strong scalar type checking", which is what it is. I have described a system that allows "strong type checking", "type hinting", and "type casting", which I think is all the use cases. Thanks, Paul -- Paul Biggar paul.big...@gmail.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
