2009/7/10 Alain Williams <a...@phcomp.co.uk>:
>
> Just to add a little fuel to this fire, should we allow the specification of
> return
> type of functions, eg:
>
> function int Factorial(int $num) {...}
>
> What about things that return FALSE on error, eg fgets(), something like this:
>
> function (string, bool) fgets(resource $handle, int $length) { ... }
>
> I suspect that it makes things too complicated.
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This would be the perfect pairing. A library utilizing strict/enforced
types would surely want to indicate explicitly the return type.
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