Re: Type hinting

Hello, On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 17:04, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> 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. -1, this table is very counter intuitive and is definitely not consistent with the rest of PHP. Either make it strict or loose but not halfway and in a bizarre way. > > Zeev > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Etienne Kneuss http://www.colder.ch