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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Return Type Hinting for Methods RFC
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Dmitri Snytkine wrote:
> While web isn't typed, the php is not just for the web anymore, or is it?
> Some databases expect typed input, else the data is not found.
> For example passing string '1' instead of number 1 will not cause any errors
> when searching MongoDB but you will not get the result you expect to get if
> the value of key is integer 1

I think THIS is the ideal example on why we do not want to 'fix problems' in PHP 
just because something else does not work properly. If I pass a numeric value to 
a parameter in my database interface I do not worry about how that parameter was 
provided. I would treat the above example as a simply bug in MongoDB and is 
actually one of the reasons I have not bothered even looking at it as an 
alternative. If I am looking for an age do I want to limit people to 'years' ... 
5 and a 1/2 is an acceptable age and may be generated automatically if I'm 
generating the data from a previously provided date of birth ... I prefer to 
provide errors myself when processing input like this, and that is always more 
appropriate IN the getter/setter that is handling the input.

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