Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith<mls@pooteeweet.org> wrote: > B) foo($bar); > function bar((int) $bar) {} > > What am I really saying with B)? > I don't care what you give me, I am going to use it as an int anyways? Exactly. Very simple. I would phrase it as "I'll accept anything and cast it to an int". > Of course I am also quite opposed to sticking this into 5.3. On which grounds? If you don't like the feature, please cast a -1 vote. If its because of the BC problems, I believe you and Johannes have veto power on what goes into 5.3.x? If so, do you intend to use it? > Finally I would like to ask to rename this entire feature (including what we > currently already have) to "type checking" or something other than "hint" > in > the documentation. Seconded. Thanks, Paul -- Paul Biggar paul.biggar@gmail.com