Re: [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints

Hi Rasmus, > On 11 Feb 2015, at 06:36, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > > And in Drupal8 *without turning on strict*: > > use Drupal\Component\Utility\String; > > it dies with: "Fatal error: "string" cannot be used as a class name in > /var/www/drupal/core/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 11" > > That String class is everywhere in Drupal. They are going to have a > fun time with that. See > > https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anonymous/d9252deeeb2aae1a5af5/raw/053155130d22551b1404d0a9b94e27424544b6d1/gistfile1 Such classes will unfortunately have to be renamed. However, this is only true if the code needs to run on PHP 7. For PHP 5 codebase compatibility, Drupal can do this: class StringHelper { … } if (version_compare(phpversion(), “7.0") < 0) { class_alias(“Drupal\\Component\\Utility\\StringHelper”, “Drupal\\Component\\Utility\\String”); } This way, only code made “PHP 7-ready" will have to replace its references to String with, say, StringHelper. Drupal can work on both PHP 5 and PHP 7, but codebases using it can migrate at their own pace. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/