Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hints

> The problem is that the current proposed hints/casts are deviating from the > type-hints that we are used to I don't think type hints we currently have are different. The only difference we have is that there is no automatic casting for objects/arrays to scalars and scalars to objects/arrays (I exclude __toString() and $a=[]; echo $a;). Regards Thomas Marco Pivetta wrote on 01.01.2015 17:56: > On 1 January 2015 at 17:44, Thomas Bley <mails@thomasbley.de> wrote: > >> I think it is no problem to add strict parameter type hints with another >> rfc (if this rfc gets accepted), e.g. function foobar(string! $str, int! >> $str){} or any other syntax. >> > > 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). > > This will also reduce clashes with the current HHVM implementation. > > Marco Pivetta > > http://twitter.com/Ocramius > > http://ocramius.github.com/ >