Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:37086 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14674 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2008 17:03:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Apr 2008 17:03:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; 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] ([212.25.124.162:35010] helo=mx1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 83/87-05127-5C287084 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:03:12 -0400 Received: from us-ex1.zend.com ([192.168.16.5]) by mx1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:03:43 +0300 Received: from [192.168.16.217] ([192.168.16.217]) by us-ex1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:03:40 -0700 Message-ID: <480782BE.8050608@zend.com> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:02:54 -0700 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Biggar CC: Felipe Pena , internals@lists.php.net References: <1208404255.5665.34.camel@pena> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Apr 2008 17:03:40.0746 (UTC) FILETIME=[FC4812A0:01C8A0AC] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Type hints (parameter and return value) From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) Hi! > Your current implementation seems to be inconsistent with both itself > and the rest of PHP. I hope this can be rectified before it is > included. PHP is inconsisent enough without adding more. If you talk about consistency, you should remember that right now no function and no feature in PHP relies on strict checking of primitive types. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com