2009/7/10 Ionut G. Stan <ionut.g.s...@gmail.com>
> On 7/10/2009 13:23, Giovanni Giacobbi wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:44:52AM +0200, troels knak-nielsen wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>
>>> For example, instead of:
>>>
>>> function addFive(int $x) {
>>> return $x + 5;
>>> }
>>>
>>> You would simply do:
>>>
>>> function addFive(is_numeric $x) {
>>> return $x + 5;
>>> }
>>>
>>> Since $x is guaranteed to be numeric, it is safe to to arithmetic on
>>> it. No reason to explicitly type cast here.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I like it too. Not only it solves the initial problem, but it also allows
> userland extensions. For example,
> the current patch does not provide checks for callables, but we already
> have is_callable in the core.
But isn't is_numeric still a valid class name? Would that mean that classes
could no longer be called is_*?
