Re: Re: Flexible type hinting

From:	Ryan Panning	Date:	Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:09:43 +0000
Subject:	Re: Re: Flexible type hinting
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Ford, Mike wrote:

    function func(int $i)
for strict type checking, and
    function func((int)$i)
for coercion aka casting (although now I've seen it written down I'm not so sure! ;).

Just want to throw my 2 cents in. Big +1 for this syntax I think with the addition of this and __cast() for objects, PHP's OO will be very flexible and can build great Frameworks, ORM's, etc.