Re: [RFC] Return type-hint

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 09:23, Ferenc Kovacs <info@tyrael.hu> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Felipe Pena <felipensp@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I've updated the patch and the RFC that proposes the return type-hint >> implementation (Engine + Reflection). >> The proposed implementation is working just like the last changes in the >> parameter type-hint (in trunk). i.e. working with the "scalar" and >> "numeric" >> pseudo-types. >> >> http://wiki.php.net/rfc/returntypehint >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Felipe Pena >> > > for the upcoming 5.4 release, I think it would be extremely useful, even > without the scalar stuff. > > Tyrael > Hi, Now that someone else necromanced this thread back to life, may I ask which variant of Type Hinting have emerged from the debate as the candidate for implementation? Also, I seem to remember a variant with both strict and weak type hinting/checking, using parentheses to distinguish behavior. What happened to that, never made it to an RFC? -- Pas