Re: Type hinting
| From: | Daniel Egeberg | Date: | Thu, 27 May 2010 09:07:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Type hinting | ||
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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:05, 魏世江 <shijiang@staff.sina.com.cn> wrote:
> Hi .
> I think there is no need to argue on it any more.
> Good programmers have the ability to manipulate the variables' types.
> But I think it's the icing on the cake if we give the PHP programmer the choice of whether
> use explicit types.
> For examlpe, we may add a switch in php.ini, let's say, explict_types=On/Off.
A php.ini setting is a really bad idea. Say that Library A expects it
to be On, but Library B expects it to be Off. Now what happens if I
want to use *both* Library A and Library B?
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Daniel Egeberg