Hey Marco, > On 1 Jan 2015, at 16:56, Marco Pivetta <ocram...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The problem is that the current proposed hints/casts are deviating from the > type-hints that we are used to, therefore this particular feature should > (eventually) have an alternate syntax, whereas the strict hints would just > use `int`, `integer`, `string`, `float`, `bool`, `boolan` without additional > chars (assuming that we will get strict hints somewhen).
I wouldn’t say it’s really such a great deviation. We use the same syntax for scalars and non-scalars in the manual. > This will also reduce clashes with the current HHVM implementation. HHVM doesn’t have scalar type hints for PHP. Hack does, but Hack isn’t PHP. Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
