Re: type hinting
| From: | Sam Barrow | Date: | Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:08:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: type hinting | ||
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On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 11:04 -0800, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> > Well it would be much easier to type hint than to manually document
> > every one of your function parameters.
>
> How is this:
>
> /* @param $client string Contains the name of the client for the account
>
> is worse or less clear or harder to write that this:
>
> processAccount(string $client)
>
> Note that unless you write the former you code is still undocumented and
> knowing it's a string won't help you much.
About the same, but the @param comment doesn't stop someone from putting
an array into $client.