Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hints v0.2

Hi Dmitry and Sebastian, > On 4 Feb 2015, at 05:49, Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net> wrote: > > Am 04.02.2015 um 06:44 schrieb Dmitry Stogov: >> What do you think about using only lowercase type names for scalar type >> hints? In this case we won't have to introduce any limitations. > > This would be inconsistent with the rest of PHP being case-insensitive > and only lead to confusion. This is how I feel. Array and Callable work, yet if Integer and String didn’t it’d be inconsistent. Also, we’d *still* have a BC issue, because who says that people with String classes didn’t use a lowercase type hint? I think the BC cost, while unfortunate, is unavoidable. Luckily, code can be changed in such a way that it’ll keep working fine on PHP 5 and only break on PHP 7, by using class_alias(). Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/