RE: [PHP-DEV] Reviving scalar type hints
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:52:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Reviving scalar type hints | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lester Caine [mailto:lester@lsces.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 12:24 PM
> To: internals@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Reviving scalar type hints
>
> On 19/02/15 09:13, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> > Obviously, I think 'weak' campers have a lot to gain too - by making
> > sensible conversions work fine as expected, without having to resort
> > to explicit casts.
> > And everyone stands to gain from having just one mode, instead of two.
> > The coercive typing approach would require each camp to give up a bit
> > of their 'ideology', but it also gives both schools of thought *most*
> > of what they want, including the key tenets for each camp (rejecting
> > non-sensible conversions - always, allowing sensible ones - always).
> > I believe that's what makes it a good compromise, a better one than
> > the currently proposed RFC.
>
> Now that all made sense!
>
> My only grey area is 'allowing sensible ones' where the size is an
> integral part
> of what is 'sensible' ... the one where conventional strict typing uses a
> type
> of the right size?
I think the guiding principal for these conversions should be no data loss.
This may mean we have different limits on different architectures, depending
on whether they're 32-bit or 64-bit.
Zeev