Re: [Zend Engine 2] Type hints revisited [IllegalArgumentException instead of E_ERROR]

At 07:15 29/03/2003, Timm Friebe wrote:

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 17:16, Timm Friebe wrote: I've implemented an additional feature for type hints that will throw an exception instead of bailing out in case an incorrect type is passed. [...LONG disussion...] After reading through a bunch of mails this generated, I get the idea that most people here would be happier with an E_WARNING and the function not being executed.

?! How the heck can we even think about such a thing? When you call a function, you expect it to run. The code that follows it may rely on stuff that it has done. Not running it is simply not an option, I can't even begin to imagine the possible consequences of such an approach! Type hints are shortcuts for instanceof. If you want to handle a situation where the function is passed the wrong arguments, don't use type hints, use instanceof. Or use the errors-for-exceptions mode that we may have. Zeev