Re: Strong typing?

> PHP is a great language. It makes it fast and easy to create web > pages. However, one feature which is critical for doing rock-solid > stable websites is strong typing. The reason for this is that you're > dealing with untrusted user input. Strong typing helps because if you > are expecting an INT, and the user gave you something else, and you > made a mistake in your input checking, the program will fail when you > attempt to assign the value to the strongly-type INT variable. This > is a good thing when you are dealing with money, or other contexts > where you need very solid code. > > First, is there a plan to introduce a strong typing option, like > perl's strict mode? > > Second, is there a way to get something equivalent to strong typing > using the class system? You can't really have it both ways. And no, there is no plan to implement strong typing. -Rasmus