> -----Original Message----- > From: Stas Malyshev [mailto:smalys...@sugarcrm.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 7:14 PM > To: Rowan Collins; internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening) > > Hi! > > > The answer - which is definitely a matter of opinion - is that > > allowing any string reduces the usefulness of the type hint. > > IMO, having consistent rules is much more, orders of magnitude more > important than serving any particular use case. We will always have use > cases > in which any particular check would not be enough. We should not sacrifice > the simplicity of the language to try and capture every one of them.
Agreed. Zeev -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
