Re: type hinting

On Feb 6, 2008 12:02 AM, Tomi Kaistila <tomi@cumulo.fi> wrote: > > No one seems to have answered my point that actually relying on type > > juggling for anything other than string concatenation is asking for a > > problem. > Probably because there isn't a way to answer that point. Anyone who does would > be laughed out of the barn. Like I told Sam just few minutes ago, the fact is > that no matter how wonderful PHP's juggling is, there is still a reason why > we have different data types. If it was all the same we wouldn't need > integer, float, et cetera. But we do have them and we do need them. > > The whole objection against this feature was never about the technical merits > of it. It was just simply about some people saying "I don't like it" and thus > concluding that it should not be added. There is no decision yet. Let us think about it a bit more and we'll bring it back to the list :) -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org