Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hints

Hey Marco, > On 1 Jan 2015, at 16:56, Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com> wrote: > > The problem is that the current proposed hints/casts are deviating from the type-hints that we > are used to, therefore this particular feature should (eventually) have an alternate syntax, whereas > the strict hints would just use int, > integer, string, > float, bool, > boolan without additional chars (assuming that we will get strict > hints somewhen). I wouldn’t say it’s really such a great deviation. We use the same syntax for scalars and non-scalars in the manual. > This will also reduce clashes with the current HHVM implementation. HHVM doesn’t have scalar type hints for PHP. Hack does, but Hack isn’t PHP. Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/