Re: Coercive Scalar Type Hints RFC
| From: | Andrey Andreev | Date: | Sat, 21 Feb 2015 23:20:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Coercive Scalar Type Hints RFC | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 5 | Groups: | php.internals |
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Hi,
I intended on replying to this thread at a later stage (and probably
will), but I just can't ignore this one:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
>
> Secondly, there you are: http://www.checkmarx.com/ -
> they've been
> developing pretty amazing static analyzers for PHP for years, and without
> any type of scalar hints - strict or weak.
>
Having used that product, I can tell you that it's not at all that
amazing for PHP (maybe it works well for other languages, don't know),
and that's an understatement. In fact, a lot of what it does is to
force you into explicit casts.
Cheers,
Andrey.