Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting

Hello Zeev 2010/7/29 Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>: > With the revived interest in the neighbourhood of type hints in the last few > days I'm resending this email from a few weeks ago. > > In a nutshell, use auto-conversion for scalar type hints, and modify the > conversion rules throughout PHP to handle 'senseless' conversions that > result in data loss differently - by emitting E_TYPE. > > Zeev Ill be very much against adding a new error level for typing, E_NOTICE or E_WARNING should be *enough* for letting the user know of any data loss. I don't think it would be a good idea for adding a new error level for specific language features, if we went to use exceptions for everything it would however have been a sleek solution but we don't. As for which solution we should take, we need a userland vote and a core vote foreach of the 3 solutions we have atm.: * Strict typehinting (as whats currently in trunk) * Weak typehinting (with silent autoconvertion) * Weak typehinting (that emits warnings/notices/type warnings) It would be nice to have such a vote so the coming RM's also have control over which solution is preferered and eventually why its preferered. -- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net