Re: Q on Primitives

Robin Burchell wrote:

Just a random thought I have from reading over that: Would it not be more 'natural' to change 'function' to indicate a method with a variant return type, and allow e.g. 'int somefunc()' instead of 'function (int) somefunc()' to indicate an int return?

it would break all php code existing so far; the only real way to implement return value types would be as such public static function somefunc():int { this would allow the return type to be optional and leave all existing code functional; likewise it could be implemented for any style of php'ing, thus: #php4 style class method or normal procedural function function dosumit():int { type hints are all ready there so adding primitives /should/ be possible without any bc issues