Re: type hinting
| From: | Sam Barrow | Date: | Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:09:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: type hinting | ||
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On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 21:23 +0000, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:08:16PM +0100, Markus Fischer wrote:
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> > Pierre wrote:
> > | 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).
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> > Having yet another way of conversion which is different from any
> > existing one in PHP scares me really ...
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> To accept 'foobar' as integer zero (as with current conversion) would make
> a total nonsense of type hinting.
Yes, it would make it pointless.