Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:34440 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 3118 invoked by uid 1010); 4 Jan 2008 18:30:30 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 3094 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2008 18:30:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Jan 2008 18:30:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:28621] helo=mx1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 1B/1A-63281-14B7E774 for ; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:30:28 -0500 Received: from us-ex1.zend.com ([192.168.16.5]) by mx1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 20:30:18 +0200 Received: from [192.168.16.90] ([192.168.16.90]) by us-ex1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:30:15 -0800 Message-ID: <477E7B37.2080006@zend.com> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:30:15 -0800 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre CC: internals Mailing List References: <477DB7BF.10201@chiaraquartet.net> <20080104105558.GC7861@mint.phcomp.co.uk> <477E5649.2080104@chiaraquartet.net> <1463438959.20080104182050@marcus-boerger.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jan 2008 18:30:15.0315 (UTC) FILETIME=[D9866630:01C84EFF] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] type hinting From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) > To make it optional was to lower the issues for those who don't care > about argument strictness. We did not give them this choice for the OO > strictness. OO mandates you to work in certain way. However, the way PHP works with values was never type-strict and there's no reason to suddenly change PHP into type-strict language. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com