Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hints

hi Andrea, On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > Good evening, > > Parameter type hints for PHP’s scalar types are a long-requested feature for PHP. Today I am > proposing an RFC which is a new attempt to add them to the language. It is my hope that we can > finally get this done for PHP 7. > > I’d like to thank Dmitry, who emailed me and gave me some feedback on the draft RFC and some > improvements to the patch. He encouraged me to put this to internals sooner rather than later, as > it’s a feature many people are hoping will be in PHP 7. > > The new RFC can be found here: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hints > > As well as the RFC, there is a working Zend Engine III patch with tests, and an incomplete > specification patch. > > Please read the RFC (and specification patch, if you wish) and tell me your thoughts. Thanks, great work and persistent effort! As I am also slightly in favor of a strict way, this RFC is a good compromise. Some comments: - on-numeric strings not accepted. Numeric strings with trailing characters are accepted, but produce a notice. I would rather not allow fancy conversions here. Any trailing non white spaces characters should not be allowed. I know it is not what PHP does now in some cases but this is really a fuzzy area and never really matched any actual needs or usages. I am also not a fan of errors, exception, at least for methods, make much more sense. I know it is relatively easy to handle errors as exception but still, let do it right now. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org