Re: Types on the right or on the left

> On 4 Nov 2014, at 17:46, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > > Hi! > >>> "public Foo function bar()" would be so much worse than "public function >>> bar() : Foo" >> >> Because when you grep for "function bar", in future you'd have to know >> the return type too. > > Sorry, I do not understand - why to grep for "function bar" you'd have > to know the type? Just grep for "function bar" as you did before. Because if that function has a return type, e.g.: public function Foo bar() Then you couldn’t grep for “function bar” because of the Foo. If we used this syntax instead, which wouldn’t disrupt grep: public Foo function bar(); It’d be inconsistent with normal function declarations which would have to have Foo after function. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/