Re: Re: Improving PHP's type system
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:59:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Improving PHP's type system | ||
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Hi!
>> Reduce assertions*, enhance self-documentation, making code more robust,
>> perform checks in the VM and not in userland, ...
You don't reduce assertions, you just make them more cryptic and change
error message slightly.
> Oh oh oh, I forgot the very important unions *int|string* and
> *float|string* for overflows as one can encounter them from time to
> time; even in native code.
Not sure what are you referring here to, but I suspect you are trying to
reimplement weak typing in some partial inconsistent and strange way,
while pretending it's strong typing.
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Stas Malyshev
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