Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hints

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > The issue is the class names though. E.g. see: > > https://github.com/ralphschindler/zf2-db/blob/master/research/ColumnType/Integer.php That's in a namespace, so it's not actually Integer, but Zend\Db\Metadata\Type\Integer > and: > > > https://github.com/canaydogan/ObjectValidator/blob/master/src/ObjectValidator/Validator/Int.php That's in a namespace, so it's not actually Int, but ObjectValidator\Validator\Int > > 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. Sorry, but for years we have this in the manual (http://php.net/manual/en/userlandnaming.rules.php): "PHP owns the top-level namespace but tries to find decent descriptive names and avoid any obvious clashes." With namespaces (as in your above examples), this is already moot. I think it's perfectly acceptable that PHP makes a built-in type a reserved word. I would certainly not change it to PHPInt to "avoid any obvious clashes". cheers, Derick