Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:05:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening) | ||
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On 13 Jul 2014, at 16:00, Rouven Weßling <me@rouvenwessling.de> wrote:
> First of all thanks for this proposal. In general I’m hugely in favour of this approach.
>
> One thing however seems like a rather bad idea, and that is exposing the type of resource in
> this way. Resources are not compatible between each other, making such a hint not very useable. If
> people start adding this hint to their methods it will also make it much harder to change resources
> into objects (like it has been done for gmp and I have a pull request for hash)
Those are good points. Is there any sane way to hint for them, then?
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Andrea Faulds
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