Re: Re: Flexible type hinting

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Stanislav Malyshev<stas@zend.com> wrote: > There is a functionality handling default values (or, more precisely, > optional arguments) with inheritance, etc. Are optional argument specifications inherited? I did not think they were, but its not clear if you are saying they are. My understanding of PHP's optional arguments is that they only apply to a function once it is called. > And it is doing something - if > you declare interface as foo(int $a) and implement it as foo(string $a) > there may be a lot of WTF happening. I mean that it is never called, therefore the type hints are not checked, and this is fine. Paul -- Paul Biggar paul.biggar@gmail.com