On 07.04.2008, at 18:57, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
Hi!

I just ran into this (IMHO unnecessary) limitation with array_reduce:
Why should it only reduce to an int? Why not a string or an array? I
plan on submitting a patch for PHP 6 to allow other types too.

I'm not sure I understand - how array_reduce is related to having type hints? You could make array_reduce to do additional things, but that doesn't require introducing strong typing into php.

PHP should be as flexible about types as possible. I never used array_reduce() so I do not know its history. But some of you might remember the change in behavior from array_merge() which was the result of a switch to a more strict parameter parsing API, which now returns false when you pass in NULL. A fair amount of people believe that this is the wrong direction to take. Continuously expanding type hints relates to this concern.

regards,
Lukas


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