Re: [Zend Engine 2] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] Type hints revisited [IllegalArgumentException instead of E_ERROR]
| From: | Brian Moon | Date: | Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:36:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [Zend Engine 2] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] Type hints revisited [IllegalArgumentException instead of E_ERROR] | ||
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| The point is that the SOAP (or whatever) library will be interfacing
| with code written by others. If those other people use type hints and
| it blows up with an E_ERROR, we don't have a nice way to handle this
| error and continue serving.
|
| This *is* a disaster, because we are introducing a feature that appears
| to be quite nice at first glance, but causes portability issues with
| peoples scripts; for instance; PEAR scripts that use type hints will
| immediately be incompatible with a larger application framework.
| Therefore, PEAR should not use type hints if it wants to remain
| portable.
I am no "novice" programmer, but I don't get where you are going here. How
is there a portability problem? You are either calling the method with the
right paramaters or you aren't. What am I missing?
Brian.
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