Re: type hinting
| From: | Sam Barrow | Date: | Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:01:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: type hinting | ||
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On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 17:53 +0100, Pierre wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2008 5:53 PM, Pierre <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 4, 2008 4:52 PM, Gregory Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net> wrote:
> >
> > > But I *don't* want my functions to take an argument of arbitrary type -
> > > it is in fact you who are missing the point. A type hint is a poor
> > > solution to a real problem that is much more easily solved via simple
> > > input validation and graceful error handling. The current situation in
> > > PHP provides a much more flexible solution to the same problem.
> >
> > Unlike our OO strictness (E_FATAL!!), nothing will prevent you to use
>
> Read: othing will prevent you to >do not< use it :)
>
So you're saying if you don't like it just don't use it?