Re: Renaming type-hints to something else?

On 16 Sep 2014, at 16:24, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: >> >> The general concept should be called Optional Type Declarations, to replace “Type >> Hinting". They are type declarations, and they are optional. Thus the name. For the things >> themselves, they’re just Type Declarations, to replace “Type Hints". > > My worry about "optional type declarations" is that once a type is > present it isn't optional anymore. Could be confusing and I am unsure > if that's any better than a "type hint". > > If we change it, maybe just call them "type declarations". I think > just referring to them as "types" could be too ambiguous. I agree. Let’s just call them “Type Declarations” then. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/