Re: [PHP-DEV] Symbol implementation

2019-04-27 Thread Dan Ackroyd
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 at 22:05, Bruce Weirdan wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 11:57 PM Dan Ackroyd wrote: > > > > typehint > > > > Please could people stop using that word. PHP's type system for > > parameters and return values are actual types, not just hints. > > People use the term PHP itself

Re: [PHP-DEV] Symbol implementation

2019-04-27 Thread Bruce Weirdan
On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 11:57 PM Dan Ackroyd wrote: > > typehint > > Please could people stop using that word. PHP's type system for > parameters and return values are actual types, not just hints. People use the term PHP itself uses: https://www.php.net/results.php?q=typehint&l=en&p=all --

Re: [PHP-DEV] Symbol implementation

2019-04-27 Thread Dan Ackroyd
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 at 20:37, David Rodrigues wrote: > > ES6 supports the Symbol type that is a replacement to hard-coded > identifiers where it are not really need. This seems quite similar to the idea of enums. That Levi and Bob might have been working on: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/enum > typeh