Re: Callable type

Hi! On 7/10/11 12:02 PM, Johannes Schlüter wrote:

I can call it in some way. It won't ensure that the signature is compatible with what I expect.

Well, it's like array type - you know it's an array but you can't know if it contains certain element that you expect, for example. As I'm not a big fan of strict typing in PHP anyway, I can't really defend this thing, but this is nothing new - other type restrictions don't guarantee you the code would work properly either, they only guarantee the type.

     function foo(callable $cb) {
         $cb();
     }
     foo("strpos"); // This one in fact is illegal but won't be

prevented But maybe this doesn't matter as type hints purely serve documentation (as E_RECOVERABLE are useless unless we make them Exceptions ...) while

Indeed, E_RECOVERABLE is more or less useless - they are only marginally better than E_ERROR since error handler could be invoked on it. I do not know why people think E_RECOVERABLE makes anything better. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227