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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 15:51:45 -0700
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To: Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Callable typehint
From: chrisstocktonaz@gmail.com (Chris Stockton)

Hello,

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Hannes Magnusson
<hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> As quickly mentioned in the '$arr = array('Hello', 'world'); $arr();'
> thread[1], we are hitting the need for a callable typehint.
>

This brings a clear and concise enhancement to PHP which I would
benefit from .I have been watching our API provide more and more
functions with callbacks as arguments and it would be nice to have a
specific type for those to clean up the is_callable error handling.

It is my opinion that comparing it to previous type hinting proposals
is like comparing apples and oranges. I think it falls in align
justification wise between Class Name and Array type hints.

I.E.
function test1(StdClass $p) ..
function test2(Closure $p) ... <== doesn't this seem more justified
then "Array" given the argument of previous type hinting proposals?
function test3(Array $arr)

+1 from me

-Chris