Re: RFC: Type hinting revisited for PHP 5.3
| From: | Alain Williams | Date: | Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:15:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC: Type hinting revisited for PHP 5.3 | ||
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On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 12:59:59PM -0400, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> There has been quite a bit of discussion on this list, IRC, developer
> meetings, etc... about introduction of type hinting to PHP. Most
> people appear to think that this would be a good idea, but there is a
> reason why it is not in PHP already. The main source of conflict
> ...
Another desirable result of type hinting is that it would strengthen
reflection ... one use of that would be automatic generation of
WSDL files. This is something that I am currently struggling to do,
not helped by the completely cr*p documentation of this - I am not
talking about PHP documentation here by W3 & other places :-(
+1 to type hinting.
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