FYI - I did some fairly major editing on the issues with strict type
hinting and advantages of auto-converting type hinting in the RFC
(beforehand I focused primarily on the conversion table).
I encourage everyone to take another look at this RFC even if you've
read it before.
Thanks,
Zeev
At 18:04 22/05/2010, Zeev Suraski wrote:
All,
As I mentioned numerous times scalar type hinting is a very
controversial feature in my mind and requires some substantial
discussion before we move ahead to implement it.
As such, I think we should revert the patch that was committed to
trunk and move to discuss it first instead.
My (& Lukas') thoughts on the subject are detailed at
<http://wiki.php.net/rfc/typecheckingstrictandweak>http://wiki.php.net/rfc/typecheckingstrictandweak
As one of the key people who designed PHP's type system I consider
strict type checks completely alien to and counterintuitive in PHP
and am therefore pushing to implement 'weak' typing instead, in a
way that's consistent and familiar to users.
Zeev
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