Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:52051 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 50855 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2011 09:03:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Apr 2011 09:03:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=addw@phcomp.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=addw@phcomp.co.uk; sender-id=permerror Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain phcomp.co.uk designates 80.68.91.63 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: addw@phcomp.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.68.91.63 bytemark.phcomp.co.uk Received: from [80.68.91.63] ([80.68.91.63:50167] helo=bytemark.phcomp.co.uk) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 2B/64-28716-15D29BD4 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:03:13 -0400 Received: from freshmint.phcomp.co.uk ([78.32.209.33] helo=mint.phcomp.co.uk) by bytemark.phcomp.co.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFN7k-000610-9Z; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:03:00 +0100 Received: from addw by mint.phcomp.co.uk with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QFN7j-0003xC-PV; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:02:59 +0100 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:02:59 +0100 To: Ferenc Kovacs Cc: Stas Malyshev , Felipe Pena , internals Message-ID: <20110428090259.GK8496@phcomp.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Ferenc Kovacs , Stas Malyshev , Felipe Pena , internals References: <4DB923E6.3020307@sugarcrm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Organization: Parliament Hill Computers Ltd Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Return type-hint From: addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain Williams) On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:39:55AM +0200, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > do you aware that without the scalar support, the return type hinting would > behave just as "strict" as the argument type hinting is currently. > http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.typehinting.php > > so maybe type hinting wasn't a good name at the first place, but we should > be consistent with the current naming convention. Yes, it was a poor choice of words. I think that it should be renamed 'type checking' with a transition note, eg: Type checking (formerly called type hinting) -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include