Re: RFC: Type hinting revisited for PHP 5.3
| From: | Ilia Alshanetsky | Date: | Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:41:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC: Type hinting revisited for PHP 5.3 | ||
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C does not have booleans, they are emulated via smallint/tinyint. As far as your other message goes, this patch does nothing to affect how native functions handle args.
Ilia Alshanetsky
On 2009-07-01, at 2:44 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote:
Hi!As far as your point goes, numeric hint addresses it.Numeric hint addresses one scenario only. It doesn't address conversions to strings or booleans, for example (even C allows you to use int as boolean! :). --Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com