Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:34413 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 13078 invoked by uid 1010); 4 Jan 2008 16:56:14 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 13058 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2008 16:56:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Jan 2008 16:56:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=sam@sambarrow.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=sam@sambarrow.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain sambarrow.com from 205.234.132.11 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: sam@sambarrow.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 205.234.132.11 scottsdale.servershost.net Received: from [205.234.132.11] ([205.234.132.11:57657] helo=scottsdale.servershost.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 63/28-63281-C256E774 for ; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:56:14 -0500 Received: from [98.172.154.66] (port=27587 helo=[10.200.100.14]) by scottsdale.servershost.net with esmtpsa (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JApq4-0002Ao-Jb; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:56:08 -0600 To: Stefan Esser Cc: Gregory Beaver , Alain Williams , internals Mailing List In-Reply-To: <477E619C.2050107@sektioneins.de> References: <477DB7BF.10201@chiaraquartet.net> <20080104105558.GC7861@mint.phcomp.co.uk> <477E5649.2080104@chiaraquartet.net> <477E619C.2050107@sektioneins.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:54:35 -0500 Message-ID: <1199465675.15292.137.camel@sbarrow-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - scottsdale.servershost.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.php.net X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - sambarrow.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] type hinting From: sam@sambarrow.com (Sam Barrow) On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 17:41 +0100, Stefan Esser wrote: > Good Morning everyone, > > one should not forget that type hinting has some clear advantages the > anti type hinting advocates always try to forget... > > * the code gets smaller because not so many typechecks in every function True. > * because the code gets smaller it is faster executed (userspace > typecheck is slower than "engine-space") Very true, type hinting would be many times faster than using is_int, etc. which puts to rest any argument that type hinting will be bad for performance. > * without all these type checks the code gets easier to read Yes, more concise and compact without manual type checking. > * with type hints byte code optimizer can optimize the code far better > -> faster execution > * with type hints static analysing tools that check for > bugs/vulnerabilities can perform far better (intra procedural analysis > gives more information) Also true. Applications like PHPDocumentor could make good use of scalar type hints. > > Stefan Esser >