Re: Type hinting

hi Zeev, On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: >> I'd say: the type-juggling is not the *big plus* of PHP. BTW: if I read >> some "PHP is so enterprise-ready" articles, I never read about the >> advantages >> of weak types. (I'd even liked it, if there would be an optional(!) >> possibility of variable type declaration. Who cares, could use it - others >> ignore it.) > > Thomas, > > I think that these statements put you in a small minority amongst PHP's > millions of users.  PHP's type system is one of its key benefits, and while > there's debate over what kind of type hinting we should implement - I don't > think there's any meaningful debate regarding PHP's weakly typed nature at > large. Short comment about that. As PHP's type system is seen as a big plus, I have to say that many users consider it as a plus in the implementation of a given method function or method. But the same users ask to have something more strict for the methods signature. I think it is a valid request and somehow makes sense too. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org