Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:36854 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 20097 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2008 17:37:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Apr 2008 17:37:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=mls@pooteeweet.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=mls@pooteeweet.org; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain pooteeweet.org from 85.10.196.195 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mls@pooteeweet.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 85.10.196.195 serveforce1.backendmedia.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [85.10.196.195] ([85.10.196.195:52258] helo=serveforce1.backendmedia.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id A1/06-26449-1EB5AF74 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:37:38 -0400 Received: from [192.168.178.43] (brln-d9ba7e71.pool.mediaWays.net [217.186.126.113]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by serveforce1.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6211224C63; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:37:23 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Felipe Pena , internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <5CB53203-F3E5-46F2-89A8-F331B2CB9017@pooteeweet.org> To: Christian Schneider In-Reply-To: <47FA507D.2070108@cschneid.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:37:08 +0200 References: <1207539695.5736.42.camel@pena> <8d7b8c130804062157j60871630r6c3b27c4d3245cb9@mail.gmail.com> <1207576676.5331.49.camel@felipe> <47FA507D.2070108@cschneid.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-backendmedia-com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-backendmedia-com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-backendmedia-com-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=0, required 6) X-backendmedia-com-MailScanner-From: mls@pooteeweet.org X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Return type hints From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith) On 07.04.2008, at 18:49, Christian Schneider wrote: > Felipe Pena wrote: >>> Right, this shouldn't even be on the agenda before we have scalar >>> type >>> hints. So, perhaps you can make a patch for that first Felipe? >> >> I don't thought this before! >> Sure, i'll try provide a patch. > > Just so this side was mentioned once again too: There are people who > consider type hints and especially scalar type hints A Bad Thing(tm) > as > it is contrary to the PHP strength of dynamic typing and automatic > type > conversion. Right if at all I would agree on having a type hint "scalar", but not a separate one per type. regards, Lukas