Re: Design by Contract and scalar types ...

Hi Lester, On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:52 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Much has been made of adding a class string to handle all the extra > unicode processing, but I am now thinking that a properly exposed string > and integer class which has the ability to assign constraint checks does > make sense. Then use of an integer value on a 32bit platform can error > when the actual value is too big for the target use. THAT is what strict > type checking is about! > Scalar may have object capability. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/autoboxing IIRC, this wasn't popular, but people's mind may change as time goes by. It does not cover your requirement, but it may be extended the way it does. Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohgaki@ohgaki.net