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

Hi, On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote: > > > If you talk about consistency, you should remember that right now no > > > function and no feature in PHP relies on strict checking of primitive > types. > > > > > > > That is not the case (or I am very much mistaken). In particular, > > is_int, which I mentioned in my email, is predicated on the IS_LONG > > type only. > > > > Read that "no function except for a tiny handful of very special cases like > is_* and serializes and probably one or two other functions that I forgot", > ok? is_* are the important functions, since they are the ones which most resemble the type hints under discussion. Up until now, anyone implementing this in user-land would use is_int(). It makes perfect sense that type hints should mimic this behaviour. Not doing so would be very inconsistent, and so confusing. Paul -- Paul Biggar paul.biggar@gmail.com