Re: type hinting
| From: | Sam Barrow | Date: | Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:43:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: type hinting | ||
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On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 17:46 +0000, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:11:41PM -0500, Sam Barrow wrote:
>
> > Exactly. I just added the "mixed" type hint which is the same as using
> > no type hint. The new patch is attached.
> >
> > Extra keywords (real, long, double, etc.) have been taken out. The
> > available type hints are now mixed, int, float, bool, string, scalar,
> > num, resource, and object. And of course array and class type hints
> > still work.
>
> I notice that you use strcasecmp() to compare type name. I thought that we were moving
> away from case independence, ie the type should be 'int' or perhaps 'INT' -
> whatever
> we agree on it should have a defined capitalisation.
Sorry I was confused about what you were saying in my previous response,
I have changed it to strcmp, for lowercase only.