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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Flexible type hinting
From: ilia@ilia.ws (Ilia Alshanetsky)


On 2-Jul-09, at 10:02 AM, Paul Biggar wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Ilia Alshanetsky<ilia@ilia.ws> wrote:
>> Paul's proposal is some part does not make sense because it allows  
>> weak type
>> hinting, which should not be used if you need type hinting. The  
>> whole idea
>> about type hinting is definition of strict interfaces, not loosely  
>> based
>> one. That's just my opinion, which admittedly I feel fairly  
>> strongly about.
>
> No, the idea of type hinting is that you hint to the user about what
> type the interface expects. You have implemented "strong type
> checking" instead. I wonder that you cannot see the conflict between
> the term "type hinting" and "strict interfaces". I would be happier if
> you renamed your patch "optional strong scalar type checking", which
> is what it is.

That's a fair statement I suppose.