Re: type hinting

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 00:58 +0200, Tomi Kaistila wrote: > > Ok, but a scalar becomes useful for a couple of important things. > > Scalars are all displayable values, that can be stored in a db, > > outputted, etc. The scalar type hint prevents errors related to objects, > > resources, and arrays attempting to be stored in the db or echoed. > True, but honestly I do not see a whole lot of use for this. In a word, it is > very limited. _Too_ limited to be truly useful in my opinion. It is simple > statistics; there is more need for specific types than scalars in general, > when using type hinting. > > I do agree that it is a good idea to allow for type hinting scalars in > general, but it should not be considered a solution. It is more like a > comfortable add-on. > > And to be frank, this really feels like a secondary price (bronze at most). If > pressed I would go bold say that this really feels like a screw. A way of > saying that we went out of our way to fix this feature that was limited by > adding a seemingly useful attribute to it, but in the end still leaving the > feature limited and not really fixing anything. A useful addon is better than none though, regardless. I agree this is not a full solution, but I'd rather have 3 type hints than 2. > Tomi Kaistila > PHP Developer >