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Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:35:20 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Flexible type hinting
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 03.07.2009, at 15:04, Paul Biggar wrote:

> 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) { ... }


hmm not sure that the consensus of a "weak" check would be an  
automatic cast. Actually that wouldnt be much of a check in that case.  
I think the other side is more asking for what Ilia already begun with  
"numeric" in the sense of a weak checker. After the check it could go  
ahead and cast too for all I care, but it shouldnt be the equivalent  
of a cast. But maybe you are not implying that and I am just getting  
confused by the syntax.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org