Andrea Faulds wrote: > From what I can see, the larger PHP community is generally in favour > of strict typing, and among them, the previous RFC revision was > received quite poorly. Myself, I might have been somewhat happy with > just weak hints, but it would upset an awful lot of developers who > would like some measure of strict typing. Developers who would most > likely not use the new scalar type hints, because they weren’t > strict. And if nobody uses them, why add them? > > This revision hopes to possibly placate both weak and strict typing > advocates. Of course, it also will lose some support in that it > allows a choice. Plus, it gives the user choice, not the API > designer, which I expect will be somewhat controversial. But I am > hopeful.
Just a thought: what about having weak scalar type hints which throw E_STRICT_TYPE if a value of another type is passed? -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
