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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Strict typing
From: indeyets@gmail.com (Alexey Zakhlestin)

2010/8/11 Ryan Panning <rpanning@gmail.com>:

> Because the current syntax used for type hinting
> classes/arrays is strict. If changed, you would need to specify that scaler
> types are weak but classnames are strict and now you have a WTH moment.

Not really. Class type-hinting is not strict. The only reason why it
looks strict is, that PHP doesn't provide userland ways for
object-casting.
As far as I remember, zend-engine, underneath, actually has hook for
casting. And nothing stops us from supporting such casting with hints,
eventually.

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Alexey Zakhlestin
http://www.milkfarmsoft.com/