Re: Renaming type-hints to something else?

Hi! > 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". So, for example: I'd just call it type declarations, the fact that they are optional is not part of their function, there are many optional things in PHP - e.g. visibility declaration for class members is optional, but we don't call it "optional visibility specification", or default values for parameters are optional, but we don't call them "optional default values". The fact that they are optional is kind of obvious anyway for anybody who have seen PHP code since most of PHP function parameters do not have them :) -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/