Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:44575 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 90603 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2009 17:15:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Jul 2009 17:15:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=addw@phcomp.co.uk; sender-id=permerror Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=addw@phcomp.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain phcomp.co.uk designates 213.152.38.186 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: addw@phcomp.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.152.38.186 freshmint.phcomp.co.uk Linux 2.6 Received: from [213.152.38.186] ([213.152.38.186:63029] helo=mint.phcomp.co.uk) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id E0/00-24906-4C99B4A4 for ; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:15:53 -0400 Received: from addw by mint.phcomp.co.uk with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MM3PB-0007Mf-CR; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:15:33 +0100 Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:15:33 +0100 To: Ilia Alshanetsky Cc: PHP internals Message-ID: <20090701171533.GI4355@mint.phcomp.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Organization: Parliament Hill Computers Ltd Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Type hinting revisited for PHP 5.3 From: addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain Williams) On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 12:59:59PM -0400, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > There has been quite a bit of discussion on this list, IRC, developer > meetings, etc... about introduction of type hinting to PHP. Most > people appear to think that this would be a good idea, but there is a > reason why it is not in PHP already. The main source of conflict > ... Another desirable result of type hinting is that it would strengthen reflection ... one use of that would be automatic generation of WSDL files. This is something that I am currently struggling to do, not helped by the completely cr*p documentation of this - I am not talking about PHP documentation here by W3 & other places :-( +1 to type hinting. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php Past chairman of UKUUG: http://www.ukuug.org/ #include