Re: Strict typing

On 11 Aug 2010, at 17:01, Elizabeth M Smith wrote: > Well this is turning into a real flamefest. I'm now totally confused to be honest. > Personally I really HATE the 5.3 implementation of "typehints" - heck you can't > even typehint arrays with an arrayobject instance, it's not hinting in any way shape or form > and is generally broken. > > On the other hand I'd like to be able to have the same control of parameters in my > userland code that I do in extensions - namely the same control I get with zend_parse_parameters. > And the same errors/warnings I get with zend_parse_parameters This. > Any reason we can't expose the logic included there into userland? Would make internal > functions and userland functions work the same and act the same. > > Anyway, at this point there's a lot of arguing and very little consensus. I'm kind > of tempted to say maybe all the people on the internals mailing list are a bit myopic in their > viewpoints, and maybe this does need to get out to a wider community (php.general perhaps?) since > the guy hacking on a wordpress plugin is every bit as much a PHP user as any of us. Absolutely. Melanie