Re: Scalar type hints and scalar type name aliases cause confuson

On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Andrea Faulds wrote: > Peter Cowburn wrote: > > > Failing that, at least making them available as aliases is a good > > thing in my book. I never understood the reluctance to make use of > > all existing names when the type declarations discussions were going > > on. Fact is, people are going to type "double", "long", etc. in > > their declarations... why get in their way? > > I don't want to allow them as aliases, because it means another thing > to add to style guides. Some people would use 'float', some 'double', > some would use 'int', some 'integer', some 'long'. It'd be > much > cleaner to just pick one and stick with it. Types don't need multiple > names. Having aliases is probably what I feel most strongly against as well. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine