On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 13:43, Evert | Filemobile <ev...@filemobile.com> wrote: > > On 2010-05-27, at 8:14 PM, Zeev Suraski wrote: > >> At 13:59 27/05/2010, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: >>> Zeev, >>> >>> Auto-conversion does not validate input to the function/method, it merely >>> obfuscates the "wrong" input by converting it to desired type resulting in >>> a potentially un-expected value. I must say I am completely against the >>> auto-conversion hint idea. >> >> All of PHP is built on that kind of conversion. See Brian Moon's email for >> a detailed instructions. >> BTW - even if strict type checking was implemented, do you truly think >> people won't simply cast their inputs to make PHP shutup about "42" not >> being a valid int? Let me assure you, they would. You'd gain nothing - as >> a matter of fact you'd lose out a bit since "abc" strings or arrays will >> happily cast into (int), while with our proposed solution - they won't. > > Is a 'scalar' typehint still being considered? It doesn't seem to suffer from > the conversion vs. typechecking argument.
Currently, it's available in trunk: http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=299707 -- Daniel Egeberg -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
