On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com>wrote:

> Hi!
>
>  http://wiki.php.net/rfc/returntypehint
>>>
>> for the upcoming 5.4 release, I think it would be extremely useful, even
>> without the scalar stuff.
>>
>
>
> Personally, I see even less point in having strict return typing (please
> stop using "hint" terminology, it confuses the whole matter, it's not "hint"
> if it describes mandatory restriction on the data) than strict argument
> typing. The RFC doesn't explain it either beyond "here how you can have some
> nice errors".
> But why would I want to see these errors? How they would make anything
> easier or better?
> --
> Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect
> SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/
> (408)454-6900 ext. 227
>

do you aware that without the scalar support, the return type hinting would
behave just as "strict" as the argument type hinting is currently.
http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.typehinting.php

so maybe type hinting wasn't a good name at the first place, but we should
be consistent with the current naming convention.

Tyrael

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