Re: Type hinting

On 22.05.2010, at 18:30, Josh Davis wrote: > As you wrote, you worked on PHP's _type system_ which is dynamic, > really cool, juggles strings with ints and what not. However, the > topic here is the _type hinting system_. As far as I know, there's no > "weak" type hinting; if a method signature hints for an array and is > given an integer, it throws a catchable fatal error. Therefore, as a > user, what I am familiar to is a strict _type hinting system_. > Anything else would feel inconsistent to me. can we please just stop calling a something a "type hinting" system, which leads to a catchable fatal error when the type does not strictly match? thats a very misleading euphemism. its simply strict typing, it has nothing to do with hinting. anyway, yes there is a proposal for an actual hinting system as Zeev has pointed out just a few mails early in the thread than yours: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/typecheckingstrictandweak regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org