On 16 Jul 2014, at 20:47, Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this would be quite nice - keeps things relatively short without
> introducing so much punctuation that it starts looking like a Perl script ;)
>
> The only problem is that either you need a whole set of functions
> (safe_int($foo), safe_float($foo), etc) or you need some format for that
> second argument, which gets you into some odd meta-validation: if you take a
> string, or an integer (expected to be in the form of a constant like
> PHP_INT), then it would be possible to write safe_cast($foo, $bar), and now
> we need rules on validating $bar, and what happens if it's wrong.
>
> The magic form with a keyword like you've written avoids that, but it feels
> kind of weird - like when SQL date functions take things like "day" and
> "hour" as barewords rather than strings.
Perhaps this could work?
if (safe_cast((int!)$foobar)) {
$foobar = (int!)$foobar;
} else {
$foobar = 1;
}
With safe_cast() being a pseudo-function à la isset() et al.
I’m not really sure adding a new set of safe casts is really such a good idea;
we don’t really need (int!) even, we could just have can_cast_int_strict (or
something like that) given that (int) and (int!) do the same thing for the
non-failure cases.
And perhaps it’d be better just to leave this to scalar type hints, I’m not
sure I really want to add this stuff...
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Andrea Faulds
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