Hi Derick,

Thanks for your answer!

Indeed, I did plan on doing another PR for 5.6 while keeping ZEND_ARG_INFO.
I'll review your notes and take care of them.

Regards,

*Florian Margaine*

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:

> Hi Florian,
>
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Florian Margaine wrote:
>
> > I specifically mean to ask @derick about this issue I'm having, since
> > he is the maintainer of ext/date.
> >
> > I wrote this pull request for the DateTimeZone::getOffset method to
> > accept a DateTimeInterface instead of a DateTime object:
> > https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/831
> >
> > Instead of using ZEND_ARG_INFO, I use ZEND_ARG_OBJ_INFO rather than
> > relying on zpp only. It makes the code consistent with the type
> > hinting errors that should arise, and also gives a correct reflection.
> >
> > However, the rest of the code in this extension uses ZEND_ARG_INFO,
> > only throwing warnings when the arguments are not of the right kind.
> >
> > Should I use ZEND_ARG_INFO and rely on zpp's warning, or should I use
> > ZEND_ARG_OBJ_INFO, and eventually translate the other methods to use
> > it too? This'd be out of this PR of course, but it makes sense to
> > streamline the methods of ext/date.
>
> I think it should use ZEND_ARG_OBJ_INFO. However, I am not sure whether
> we can do that in 5.x because of BC reasons. It's these tiny mistakes
> that are the larger BC problems. So I would suggest that you make a PR
> for 5.6 without ZEND_ARG_OBJ_INFO, and one for 7 with ZEND_ARG_OBJ_INFO.
>
> I think the patch looks mostly good too. I would recommend you squash
> the commits into a single commit though.
>
> cheers,
> Derick
>

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