Re: What do we need strict scalar type hints for?
| From: | Yasuo Ohgaki | Date: | Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:12:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What do we need strict scalar type hints for? | ||
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Hi Dmitry,
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote:
> could you please write down few use cases, when strict scalar type hints
> are really useful.
>
I'm not opposing to have scalar type hints, but assertion can do better job
for it. I think you have proposed assert() w/o runtime overhead. Is this
included in PHP7? Enable by opcache, perhaps?
Sorry for OT. I'm curious.
Regards,
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Yasuo Ohgaki
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