Re: Return type hints

> Terje Slettebø wrote: > > The above was a contrived example, meant to illustrate the point. What's so > > bad about it? That it doesn't check the return value? > > I am not worried about the return value of the method. I am concerned > that $this->something is unset yet does not throw a notice. This is > only true for properties of objects. Any other variable in PHP does not > behave this way. IMHO, PHP should either initialize that variable to a > default type and value or throw a notice when you try and use it without > setting its value. I completely agree. :) _Then_ I understood you; I thought you meant my example(code) was "crap"... :) Another weird thing of PHP's implementation of OO is that propagation of constructor calls to the base class is not ensured, something I can't for the life of me understand why, but that deserves its own thread... Regards, Terje