Hi! > My proposal is simple: behave as an inline type hint. The same type hints > you have in arguments lists, but inline. The use case is "I want to make > sure this value is of this type" and a side benefit is the IDE can know the > variable is of this type too (for autocompletion purposes).
What's wrong with instanceof? You can then throw fatal error if you want, it's just two lines: if(!($foo instanceof Bar)) { trigger_error(E_USER_ERROR, "Wrong foo!"); } -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php