Re: Type hinting

FYI - I did some fairly major editing on the issues with strict type hinting and advantages of auto-converting type hinting in the RFC (beforehand I focused primarily on the conversion table). I encourage everyone to take another look at this RFC even if you've read it before. Thanks, Zeev At 18:04 22/05/2010, Zeev Suraski wrote:

All, As I mentioned numerous times scalar type hinting is a very controversial feature in my mind and requires some substantial discussion before we move ahead to implement it. As such, I think we should revert the patch that was committed to trunk and move to discuss it first instead. My (& Lukas') thoughts on the subject are detailed at <http://wiki.php.net/rfc/typecheckingstrictandweak>http://wiki.php.net/rfc/typecheckingstrictandweak As one of the key people who designed PHP's type system I consider strict type checks completely alien to and counterintuitive in PHP and am therefore pushing to implement 'weak' typing instead, in a way that's consistent and familiar to users. Zeev -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php