Re: What do we need strict scalar type hints for?

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > > hi, > > > > could you please write down few use cases, when strict scalar type hints > > are really useful. > > I think there is one big misunderstanding in Andrea's RFC. > > Strictness is local only. Or to say it in a better way, only the > maintainers of a given library will bother with it. Actually, not. The proposal makes declare() work on caller side. So, each usage of a library function in user code may be wrapped with declare() or not. Thanks. Dmitry. > Users of this > library do not, there will be no change there from what we had in the > 1st rfc. Or they can if they want. > > Keeping that in mind, the declare statement, as ugly as it may look, > could be actually a killer to finally get what both camps want but > never (and never will) manage to agree. > > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org >