Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)
| From: | Alain Williams | Date: | Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:11:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening) | ||
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 05:14:04PM +0100, Rowan Collins wrote:
> The only *consistent* behaviour is strict validation, period. If you
> want that, use Hack; if you want some other kind of type hint, it
> has to introduce something new.
Since we are looking at doing this what good reason is there for not adopting
the syntax & some of the semantics of Hack ?
http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.annotations.php
NIH is not a good reason.
NIH = Not Invented Here
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