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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Return type hints
From: ramsey@php.net (Ben Ramsey)

On 4/7/08 9:15 AM, Jarismar Chaves da Silva wrote:
> Or something like this would be nice too, please avoid using +<TYPE> or 
> (<TYPE>).
> 
> class test {
>    public static Itest function testing($instance) {
>       return $instance;
>    }
> }

I think this is the most intuitive approach. However, this means that regular 
function declarations would be like:

Itest function testing($instance) {
     return $instance;
}

Would this present a problem?

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