RE: [PHP-DEV] Reviving scalar type hints
| From: | François Laupretre | Date: | Fri, 20 Feb 2015 01:12:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Reviving scalar type hints | ||
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Hi Larry,
Thanks for trying to sort this out. This is very valuable work.
> De : Larry Garfield [mailto:larry@garfieldtech.com]
>
> Anthony, can you expand here at all about the practical benefits of
> strong-typing for variable passing for the compiler?
I will let Anthony reply as the question is for him, but can you precide which compiler you're
talking about ? The compiler layer of the PHP interpreter, or a future AOT compiler generating
native executable code from PHP code ? I guess the reply will be different in both cases.
Regards
François