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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Enum proposal (yet another)
From: keisial@gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C1ngel_Gonz=E1lez?=)

On 23/02/12 23:49, Kris Craig wrote:
> Yeah I agree, that was one of the things I listed under
> "disadvantages" lol.
>
> I guess my question is:  Does this constitute a prohibitive problem,
> or is it something that we can stomach?
>
> I mean, if you think about it, that's really what we're talking about
> anyway, right?  After all, when you're writing any application, you're
> either going to be writing it with strict typing or you're going to be
> writing it with dynamic typing.  The only difference here is that
> coders with either preference will both find PHP accommodating to
> their style.
>
>
> Similarly, a somewhat weaker argument could be made that, in PHP 5,
> you're either coding for procedural design or for OO design
> (technically you could do both, but I wouldn't wanna touch that
> codebase with a ten foot poll lol).  The only difference here is that
> there would be a config setting to tell the interpreter which is which.
>
> --Kris
I think you would get developers coding for strict, and hostings set to
weak. Makes more sense to have it as a per file / per function
attribute, so the author can choose if they want the values passed to it
to be coerced or act as if they were doing a manual check and throwing
an exception.