Silly question time again ... Currently I have an array of variables and the docblock annotation tells me just what each element is intended to be. I process the variables on that basis and while it may be helpful to have some higher level of 'restraint', I have a working flexible system. As a variable is processed it is constrained by the appropriate rules. If PHP adds 'Type Hints' they will only apply to where I am passing an array variable, and the type hint adds additional processing to that which I already maintain myself. How will that improve performance?
Add to this equation that the type and constraints of a variable may well vary from one record set to another. It may well be that a fixed set of types can be defined, but these are not the types currently being defined and would include date types in parallel with a group of numeric types. Passing 'strict' types in some cases just does not compute in my book, and even 'coercive' types only addresses a subset of the types needed so that it adds another layer of 'checking' over what we already have in much of the existing user code base. People keep going on about different rule sets but this just adds another set of 'rules' rather than a single solution. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
