Re: type hinting
| From: | Sam Barrow | Date: | Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:50:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: type hinting | ||
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On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 13:22 -0500, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> On 4-Jan-08, at 1:20 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>
> >> layer. It also makes the code far more readable and understandable
> >> not the mention help doc generation tools that interrogate the code.
> >
> > I was under impression that it is good manners to actually document
> > your code and not rely on the tools to "interrogate" your code. Of
> > course, not everybody has good style, but I don't see much value in
> > changing language so that people writing in bad style would feel
> > more comfortable.
>
Well it would be much easier to type hint than to manually document
every one of your function parameters.
> If you can offload type documentation you can make better use of your
> time documenting the logic of the code, there is something to be said
> about self documenting code especially when doing things like WSDL
> generation.
Very good point.