Re: Type hinting of class properties

I think type hinting of all variables eventually would be great, as long as it stays completely optional. On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 01:18 +0100, Baptiste Autin wrote: > I know well the sacred "loose typing" anthem, but is there any hope to see > the class properties type hinted one day? (and the return value as well) > > I mean, as an OPTION, as it is already done with function parameters... > > Class A { > } > Class B { > public A $a; > } > > Because: > 1. It is so strange to see that in PHP5 only the function parameters > have this feature implemented today. It's like a half-done job. > 2. Many design patterns make use of composition (versus inheritance - > thanks the GoF) and a composition would be more readable with such a > feature. > 3. Model-driven, reverse-enginering tools would appreciate this too. > > Other question: would it be conceivable to gather the ENV / GET / POST (and > so on) variables into one or more system classes? (sorts of "context > classes") so that one would always have the choice between looking into the > traditional arrays $_xxx, or into the system classes (I'm sure this point > has already been discussed, but I wasn't there :-). >