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On Wednesday, March 07, 2012 07:10 AM, Simon Schick wrote:
Hi,:
It got quite around that because we have some RFCs to this where the
functionality seems to be defined as the people thought it should be.
Otherwise they can raise their hands and write a mail that they want to
update the RFC - but as there's no one doing that, I think we're quite
close to what we wanted.
Take a look at it and feel free to add your ideas in this thread.
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/parameter_type_casting_hints
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/object_cast_to_types
Been watching this for a while, got slightly interested in the parameter
casting thing, but then ran a little test
http://www.roojs.com/examples/types.php
Casting on PHP may help the code inside the function, but the result is
some weird and wonderful magic for the calling code, not to mention that
the docs for (int) casting say the behavior may change, don't expect it
to work like that forever..
You could try some kind of stricter casting. Where odd conversions
between array/object <-> bool/int/float/string do not work on parameter
casting .. but then you end up with two types of casting ...
Anyway, will go back to lurking for a while..
Regards
Alan
Bye
Simon
2012/3/6 Kris Craig<kris.cr...@gmail.com>
Wow no offense, but your timing is terrible, Raymond! We've been going
back and forth on this for the past couple weeks now, though the discussion
has quieted for the moment.
I would suggest you go through some of the recent posts on Internals.
Right now there basically is no solid consensus on this issue, though some
of us have been working to change that. But as it stands now, I'm not
aware of any plans to introduce expanded typing of any kind in the
foreseeable future. And even if we did, I highly doubt it would happen
before PHP 6.
--Kris
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Raymond Irving<xwis...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I came across some info on the web that states that scalar type hinting
was
added to the PHP trunk but it did not make it's way into 5.4 because of
objections from the community. Will it ever make it's way into 5.5?
I know PHP is considered to be a weak typed language but it should also
be
about freedom. Freedom for a PHP developer to choose to use scalar type
hinting whenever he/she sees the need.
Best regards,
__
Raymond
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