Re: Scalar Type Hinting

On Thu, March 8, 2012 5:13 am, Alain Williams wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 11:06:56AM +0200, Arvids Godjuks wrote: >> > Type hints are meant to >> > filter input from external sources >> >> Correction, it should read like this: >> Type hints are _not_ meant to filter input from external sources > > +1 > > What they will do is to catch where input from external sources has > NOT been > correctly filtered -- but that should be a rare event and indicative > of a bug. While everybody here routinely filters all input, you're living in a dream world if you think un-filtered data is a rare event. It's still a bug, but definitely not rare. Or perhaps you meant "that should be a rare event if we want all PHP apps to be well-written" rather than "that should be a rare event in terms of BC" -- brain cancer update: http://richardlynch.blogspot.com/search/label/brain%20tumor Donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=FS9NLTNEEKWBE