Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:56:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening) | ||
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On 20 Jul 2014, at 15:54, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This proposal’s scalar type hints (except for booleans) can’t really be called
> > “strict”. Perhaps “firm typing”? (It’s not weak, but it’s not quite strong either)
>
> Stas and Sebastian are talking about the unfortunate naming of the current (non-scalar) type
> hints.
Oh, of course. Perhaps we could say that the non-scalar type hints are “optional strict typing”
and the scalar type hints are “optional firm typing”?
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Andrea Faulds
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