Re: type hinting
| From: | Sam Barrow | Date: | Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:08:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: type hinting | ||
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On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 21:53 +0100, Pierre wrote:
> Hi Marcus,
>
> On Jan 6, 2008 9:24 PM, Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net> wrote:
>
> > That said I would only agree to type hints if we make them respect existing
> > PHP conversion rules.
>
> That can be a good compromise and may make happy the cons camp.
> However, I would not like to have "11an" returns 0 but raises an
> error. I can live with "[0-1.]" being converted to integer or float as
> it is the case now. Even I would rather prefer a strict hinting and
> let the user of a method or function do the cast (for the reasons
> explained numerous times in this thread).
Well concerning integers and floats, this is why I have implemented the
"num" type hint, which accepts either. Very useful in my opinion.