Re: type hinting

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:45 +0100, Stefan Priebsch wrote: > Robert Cummings schrieb: > > The onus should be on consumers of my API to use it properly, not on me > > to jump through hoops to make sure they gave me the correct data at > > every step of the way. I stopped holding hands in grade 3 or so. > > Still you force any defensive coder to repeat explicit type checks and > type casts all over whenever one of your API functions is called. That depends. If you look back in time at the messages on the list you'll see I argue for the use primarily within libraries/frameworks and not so much for general user consumption. For instance, if you extend a class in my API and override methods and such, I expect the data you pass to me is of the correct type when you call parent::someMethod(). Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................