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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Return type hints
From: krister.karlstrom@arcada.fi (=?UTF-8?B?S3Jpc3RlciBLYXJsc3Ryw7Zt?=)

Yes indeed you can implement it using the __call method, but it would be 
more readable if the language structure itself would support it. I 
suggested this just because I think that this is the most common way of 
using overloading, thus this probably would make sense to lot of users 
out there.

But it was only a suggestion among others.

/Krister Karlström

Arvids Godjuks wrote:

> Em, you have __call method in classes - via it you could implement ANY logic
> for overloading. It's written in manual here:
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php
> 
> KISS should be followed - no C++ style overloading is needed, PHP is a
> script language without strict type hinting.
> 
> 2008/4/8, Krister Karlström <krister.karlstrom@arcada.fi>:
>> Hi!
>>
>> This is maybe getting a bit out of topic now, but what about
>> function/method overloading using type hinting:
>>
>> function myfunc(string $data) { }
>> function myfunc(int $data) { }
>> function myfunc(myClass $data) { }
>>
>> This currently causes an error in PHP 5.2.5 that function myfunc() can't
>> be redeclared. This would in my opinion be very useful for methods in
>> classes.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Krister Karlström, Helsinki, Finland
>>
>> Arvids Godjuks wrote:
>>
>>  I think type hint's would be good optional functionality. Those who need
>>> will use it, others will not. I'd probably use it in some cases.
>>> Especially
>>> if named parameters are implemented.
>>>
>>> Sometimes what I really want is named parameter pass like
>>>
>>> function myfunc(array $array, string $string = null, int $someint = 0){
>>> }
>>>
>>> myfunc($myArray, someint = $mySomeInt);