Re: [RFC] Strict type hints (parameter and return value)

Hi Stanislav, On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote: > As a final shock, I am not convinced > functions in PHP should throw exceptions when parameters don't match - and > even if they do, first they should attempt to make sense of parameters > (which makes string hints like "integer" and "string" make no sense - you > can convert a lot of things to int or string). This is of course why I suggested that the best approach would be automatically convert them, rather than reject a type which can be coerced appropriately. I would settle for the current proposal, but if you're going to make the language weakly-typed, which it is, it is more appropriate to keep this in line with the rest of the language. Paul -- Paul Biggar paul.biggar@gmail.com