Re: Renaming type-hints to something else?

> On Sep 16, 2014, at 8:11, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: > Can anyone come up with a better name than hints? Maybe `type > declarations? Or should we just stick with hints`? My general feeling is to leave it alone. I agree that it's a misnomer, but as has been mentioned, it's a well established misnomer. I don't see a big gain from it apart from academic purity. That, said, while I don't support a yes vote, I wouldn't bother voting against it. I do worry about a small class of extensions which inspect type hints. They'll need to ifdef around the API version to keep working. But I'll be honest, there's probably very few of those, and I probably wrote a sizable portion of them out of boredom. Even if they're more common than I imagine, the work-arounds are easy and reasonable, and anyone with a lick of C knowledge can manage it in a few minutes. As for Hint versus Declaration/Decl or Annotation or whatever... My second choice (since staying with hint is my first) is probably decl(aration). Despite my HHVM loyalties, I'm not fond of using "annotation" here anyway. There's a reasonable argument in this thread for "check", but that feels clumsy from the user side. -Sara (My .02 USD)