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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Return type hinting patch
From: sam@sambarrow.com (Sam Barrow)

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 09:23 +0300, Arvids Godjuks wrote:
> I'm +1 for this syntax
> 
> function int myfunction(int $param)
> {
>      return $someint;
> }
> 
> C/C++ like, easy to understand
> 
> 
> And bad idea about making a return type "function" - looks very
> useless and will not be used a lot. Work with objects with methods
> returning an object of some kind, then you can do

Function is a reserved keyword in PHP anyway, it would cause problems in
numerous places if it was used as a type.

> $object->method()->method2()->method3();
> 
> P.S. I think this thread should be merged with function param type
> hinting because they come together and should be implemented together,

Well this is two parts, class/array hinting and scalar hinting. Class
and array hinting is already implemented, so for now I'm just pushing
for that in return types.