Re: type hinting

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:15:43PM +0100, Stefan Priebsch wrote: > Pierre schrieb: > > I don't see the point to make a application working when you pass to > > it the wrong data, it is a bad usage. That was the moto for the > > So how are you going to deal with the "bad usage" then? Isn't the > problem that this "bad usage" is discovered at runtime, vs at compile > time like in Java? If you don't deal with these errors, you effectively > "crash" your application. What 'fixup' can someone do ? If a bad type gets in it is the result of a bug in the code. We must provide the optional ability to trap to a function so that the programmer can log the error in his own way and even, perhaps, invoke some try/catch exception handling. If the error function does not cause a try/catch exception the script gets killed when the function returns. What if type hinting wasn't used ? The program would continue and prob do something stupid like putting a zero in some database column, or worse. -- Alain Williams Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php Chairman of UKUUG: http://www.ukuug.org/ #include <std_disclaimer.h>