Re: AW: [PHP-DEV] Types on the right or on the left

Hi! > put types only on the right, or only on the left or mix it. I > followed the return type RFC and thus know that many people think it > has to be on the left hand side. Fair enough, I do not have anything > against such a decision. I also have nothing against putting the type > on the right hand side. What merely bothers me is that it would be > another inconsistency in the language design. It's not very intuitive > for a user if a type hint is once on the right hand side and once on > the left hand side. I agree, this is not a very good situation. It would be much better to take a systematic approach to this, but this is impossible since there is no systematic approach to strict typing in PHP, just some pieces here and there. I think this is not right, but obviously many people here disagree and are happy to have the inconsistent syntax. I don't see why "public Foo function bar()" would be so much worse than "public function bar() : Foo" but for some reason this possibility wasn't even considered as far as I can see. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/