Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hints

Hi! I like it, it's consistent and to the point. If we must have scalar typed parameters (I'm not sure but if we do), IMO that's the way to do it. The issue is the class names though. E.g. see: https://github.com/ralphschindler/zf2-db/blob/master/research/ColumnType/Integer.php and: https://github.com/canaydogan/ObjectValidator/blob/master/src/ObjectValidator/Validator/Int.php These are uppercase "I", but class names are not case-sensitive... So we'll need to figure it out. Unfortunately, looking at github, disallowing "class Int" looks like pretty bad idea. We can make it lowercase-only, but this would be a bit weird since it's not sensitive in all other places (unless we change that which is another huge can of worms). BTW, right now this code: function foo(integer $a) { var_dump($a); } foo(1); produces this message: Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to foo() must be an instance of integer, integer given which is pretty confusing I'd say :) We'd probably want to rephrase that message (yes, I know, patching all those tests yet again...) -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com