Re: Scalar Type Hinting
| From: | Stas Malyshev | Date: | Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:31:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Scalar Type Hinting | ||
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Hi!
Just took a look on it - the syntax proposed there is quite ugly and rather confusing, I really wouldn't like to have such syntax in PHP. Also "(int) $foo = “1” will generate an E_COMPILE_ERROR" makes no sense to me. Also, this line: function test((int) $intParam, (string) $strParam = "foo", (array) $array) {} is not proper PHP code - it contains optional parameter and then parameter with no default. And can we please stop using word "hinting"? We can call it type conversion, typecasting, type coercion, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_conversion But I don't see how there's any hinting involved. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227https://wiki.php.net/rfc/parameter_type_casting_hints