Re: Re: Type-hinted return values in PHP5?
| From: | David Duong | Date: | Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:44:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Type-hinted return values in PHP5? | ||
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Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
Again, this really has little to do with IDEs. It is aimed improving the interface language construct. [1]http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38402I think the only serious advantage I could see would be to allow context-assistance IDEs more data, so they could provide method-completion.PHPDoc does that with @return tag. True but there will be times when the documentation is wrong[1] or when the function returns something that it shouldn't.