Re: is_digits() and digits type
| From: | Rowan Collins | Date: | Tue, 12 May 2015 21:38:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: is_digits() and digits type | ||
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On 12 May 2015 22:32:55 BST, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:
>It is already possible to pass around, and type hint for, any class of
>object, so you could for instance have a DatabaseID class. PHP's lack
>of operator overloading makes that less appealing, perhaps, but it
>would work.
Incidentally, it's still not the type hint that's performing validation here - that would
go in the constructor of the object, I guess. Rather, the type hint holds the promise that the
validation has already happened somewhere else.