Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:44592 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 19394 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2009 18:44:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Jul 2009 18:44:15 -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 63.205.162.117 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 63.205.162.117 us-mr1.zend.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from [63.205.162.117] ([63.205.162.117:34194] helo=us-mr1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 80/46-24906-E7EAB4A4 for ; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:44:15 -0400 Received: from us-gw1.zend.com (us-ex1.zend.net [192.168.16.5]) by us-mr1.zend.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 352CFE12C3; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.16.83] ([192.168.16.83]) by us-gw1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:44:48 -0700 Message-ID: <4A4BAE7B.3020601@zend.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:44:11 -0700 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ilia Alshanetsky CC: PHP internals References: <4A4BA5C8.1020204@zend.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Jul 2009 18:44:48.0571 (UTC) FILETIME=[02BEB0B0:01C9FA7C] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Type hinting revisited for PHP 5.3 From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) Hi! > As far as your point goes, numeric hint addresses it. Numeric hint addresses one scenario only. It doesn't address conversions to strings or booleans, for example (even C allows you to use int as boolean! :). -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com