Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)
| From: | Rouven Weßling | Date: | Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:28:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening) | ||
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On 13 Jul 2014, at 17:05, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
> On 13 Jul 2014, at 16:00, Rouven Weßling <me@rouvenwessling.de> wrote:
>
>> 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?
I don’t think so. I suggest leaving them out for now. I hope we’ll see mores resources converted
into classes but if that doesn’t happen hinting for resources can still be addressed later.
Best regards
Rouven