The return type hinting is probably the biggest thing happening in php in a long time. Is this too good to be true?
With return type hinting I can see a huge improvenets in php IDEs in spotting errors. Also it will be much easier to auto generate wsdl files when return types are known to a compiler. These are just to name a couple of important benefits that can come out of it. What I don't see is any discussion of being able to declare the type of variable, you now, like in Java. ie: private \ArrayObject $customers; Also, is there an implicit "void" return type? I hope that declaring types of variables will be added too because without it, this feature is not all that useful. Dmitri Snytkine Web Developer Ultra Logistics, Inc. Phone: (888) 220-4640 x 2097 Fax: (888) 795-6642 E-Mail: dsnytk...@ultralogistics.com Web: www.ultralogistics.com "A Top 100 Logistics I.T. Provider in 2011" -----Original Message----- From: Will Fitch [mailto:will.fi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 5:29 PM To: Pierre Joye Cc: Nikita Popov; PHP Developers Mailing List Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Return Type Hinting for Methods RFC Hi Pierre and Nikita, I have added callable to the patch and updated the RFC entry to reflect the changes. Please verify and let me know if you have any issues. On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Pierre Joye wrote: > hi Will, > > You should add it now, while 5.4 final is not released yet, this > feature exists already and should be part of the RFC, to be complete. > > Cheers, > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Will Fitch <will.fi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Nikita, >> >> I didn't add that as it's not yet in production. As soon as things are finalized and 5.4 is GA, I will gladly add the callable type hint. The change wouldn't be different from parameter type hinting, and can easily be added. >> >> On Dec 21, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Nikita Popov wrote: >> >>> Hi Will! >>> >>> One random thought I had while reading the RFC is: What about the >>> newly introduced callable typehint? Is this missing by intention? I >>> could well imagine so (because it's hard to check what scope >>> callability should be checked on), but wanted to be sure on that. >>> >>> Nikita >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Will Fitch <will.fi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hello All, >>>> >>>> I would like to submit https://wiki.php.net/rfc/returntypehint2 into discussion. A link to the patch for this is provided and can be ran against the current HEAD. >>>> >>>> There is an older entry still in existence, but this patch is syntactically different. The older entry is located at https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typechecking and is bundled with parameter, scalars, etc. >>>> >>>> If possible, can someone promote this to the "Under Discussion" category within https://wiki.php.net/rfc? >>>> >>>> -- Will >>>> -- >>>> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >>>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>>> >> >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > > > > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
