Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hints v0.2

2015-01-14 16:00 GMT+02:00 Pavel Kouřil <pajousek@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > personally, as a language user, I really dislike the idea of both > options for scalar type hinting to be the part of the language. > Especially since you would have to declare the strict typing in each > file (if you are going by 1 class per file in a bigger project, that's > a LOT of declare directives to write in the long run) and if you'd > forgot once, it would make the calling of methods somehow > inconsistent. > > I wish there was just one way to do it; I don't care if the weak or > strong variant is going to be accepted, IMHO most programmers will be > able to adapt to either of them. The weak version makes probably more > sense for PHP and how it handles scalar types (at least from userland > developer's standpoint), but either of them is better than no > typehints at all. :) > > PS: Personally, I find the "scalar" typehint idea useless and cannot > find a real use case for it. Richard, would you mind giving an > example? > > Regards > Pavel Kouril As a userland developer, have to agree with this message fully. -1 on the v0.2 version, the declare() approach is gonna make our job misserable after a few years when this gets adopted and misused by a lot of people...