Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:34467 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 40083 invoked by uid 1010); 4 Jan 2008 19:17:54 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 40066 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2008 19:17:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Jan 2008 19:17:54 -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] ([212.25.124.162:38347] helo=mx1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 5C/81-63281-C368E774 for ; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:17:18 -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 21:17:09 +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 11:17:06 -0800 Message-ID: <477E8633.4020303@zend.com> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:17:07 -0800 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derick Rethans CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <200801031903.01980.tomi@cumulo.fi> <1199380881.15292.11.camel@sbarrow-desktop> <200801032019.03957.tomi@cumulo.fi> <477D2E51.3080101@iamjochem.com> <1199386464.15292.16.camel@sbarrow-desktop> <477D5593.5050407@fischer.name> <1199396862.15292.88.camel@sbarrow-desktop> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jan 2008 19:17:06.0677 (UTC) FILETIME=[653A3250:01C84F06] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: Optional scalar type hinting From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) > Definitely not. Type hints now throw E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR, and that > should be the same for any other typehinting system that we add. Then we don't add any, because without static type control it's just a ticking timebomb waiting to blow up your production code (and having application display "An internal error happened, please contact developers" is blowing up no less than having blank screen). -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com