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Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:04:30 +0100
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	Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com>, Hannes Magnusson <bjori@php.net>
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Subject: Re: Flexible type hinting
From: paul.biggar@gmail.com (Paul Biggar)

Hi Ilia,

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Paul Biggar<paul.biggar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to Ilia for getting to ball rolling on scalar type hinting.
> I believe I have a solution that caters to each crowd, without being
> too complicated.

My impression is that there only minor support for the "flexible"
approach, and that even then, everyone prefers strict checking by
default. So the ideal seems to be your patch, with the addition of

   function x ((int) $casted_parameter) { ... }

Since this can be built as an extra step on top of your patch, this
can be added later (although it would obviously be great if you
preferred to add it now...). I recommend you proceed with the next
step of getting your patch accepted (I presume an RFC or something).


Thanks,
Paul

-- 
Paul Biggar
paul.biggar@gmail.com