Re: [PHP-DEV] Really Need..

2009-01-19 Thread Hannes Magnusson
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 23:30, Robin Burchell wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Nathan Rixham wrote: >> I've reworded my original mail completely maybe this one will have more >> feedback (or not) >> >> question: Would anybody else like to see, or feel the need for, *optional* >> type hin

Re: [PHP-DEV] Really Need..

2009-01-18 Thread Nathan Rixham
Robin Burchell wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Nathan Rixham wrote: I've reworded my original mail completely maybe this one will have more feedback (or not) question: Would anybody else like to see, or feel the need for, *optional* type hinting of variables and class properties in PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] Really Need..

2009-01-18 Thread Robin Burchell
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Nathan Rixham wrote: > I've reworded my original mail completely maybe this one will have more > feedback (or not) > > question: Would anybody else like to see, or feel the need for, *optional* > type hinting of variables and class properties in PHP? > I was invol

Re: [PHP-DEV] Really Need..

2009-01-18 Thread Nathan Rixham
Hannes Magnusson wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 17:42, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: On 17.01.2009, at 18:06, Nathan Rixham wrote: a: Optional Static Typing I'm finding an ever increasingly need to be able to staticly type properties, parameters, return types etc (in classes) I know there is type

Re: [PHP-DEV] Really Need..

2009-01-18 Thread Hannes Magnusson
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 17:42, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > > On 17.01.2009, at 18:06, Nathan Rixham wrote: > >> a: Optional Static Typing >> I'm finding an ever increasingly need to be able to staticly type >> properties, parameters, return types etc (in classes) I know there is type >> hinting but

Re: [PHP-DEV] Really Need..

2009-01-18 Thread Nathan Rixham
first off; had a rather in-depth (but lacking when it comes to internal input) over on the general list; has been interesting. Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: On 17.01.2009, at 18:06, Nathan Rixham wrote: a: Optional Static Typing I'm finding an ever increasingly need to be able to staticly type p

Re: [PHP-DEV] Really Need..

2009-01-18 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
On 17.01.2009, at 18:06, Nathan Rixham wrote: a: Optional Static Typing I'm finding an ever increasingly need to be able to staticly type properties, parameters, return types etc (in classes) I know there is type hinting but it's just not enough to do what one needs. Additionally support

[PHP-DEV] Really Need..

2009-01-17 Thread Nathan Rixham
Afternoon all, Recently I've been running in to a lot of frustrations with PHP, don't get me wrong I love the language, but I just can't do what I *need* to in a few situations, specifically when dealing with Classes and Objects. I strongly feel that these need added in to PHP 6, for multiple