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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:08:23 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Scalar type hinting
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 21:05 +0100, Gustavo Lopes wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:09:08 +0100, Johannes Schlüter  
> <johannes@schlueters.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 13:05 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote:
> >>
> >> I'd have to come up with some OTHER scenario not involving fatal
> >> error, such as:
> >>
> >> strict $db = new DB();
> >
> > The example is wrong. The new operator will always return an instance of
> > the given class (or there will be an exception).
> > [...]
> 
> 
> This is not true. The new operator can return NULL. In fact, the intl  
> extension uses this extensively:

ok, internal stuff can do everything it wants. But it shouldn't. Doing
that is really bad and I wasn't aware of that case. :-)

And since it's bad another example should be used :-)

johannes