Re: [RFC] Enable strict_types checking for curl_setopt()
| From: | Fleshgrinder | Date: | Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:24:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Enable strict_types checking for curl_setopt() | ||
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On 4/24/2017 10:20 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Because each option expects the value to be a specific type, it makes sense
>> to enforce these types in strict type checking mode. I'd therefore like to
>> propose that we introduce strict type enforcement inside curl_setopt() when
>> "declare(strict_types=1);" is being used.
>
> While it may make sense to check types per-option, that's not exactly
> what scalar types are supposed to do - this is not argument typing, this
> is internal function business logic, and I am not sure confusing the two
> is really that good an idea.
>
I completely agree with Stanislav at this point.
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curl_setopt can and
probably should validate the types of the various options, it may even
throw a TypeError, but it most certainly should not depend on the
strict_types declaration.
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Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger
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