Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:58383 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 44969 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2012 02:36:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Mar 2012 02:36:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=sebastian@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=sebastian@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 93.190.64.33 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: sebastian@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 93.190.64.33 mail-3.de-punkt.de Received: from [93.190.64.33] ([93.190.64.33:39409] helo=mail-3.de-punkt.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 36/E3-46815-6C0EE4F4 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:36:55 -0500 Received: (qmail 32272 invoked by uid 511); 1 Mar 2012 02:36:48 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 32267, pid: 32269, t: 0.5905s scanners: attach: 1.4.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?0.0.0.0?) (sb%sebastian-bergmann.de@217.114.76.105) by 0 with ESMTPA; 1 Mar 2012 02:36:48 -0000 Message-ID: <4F4EE0C0.1050302@php.net> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:36:48 -0500 Organization: PHP Development Team User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Scalar Type Intentions From: sebastian@php.net (Sebastian Bergmann) On 02/29/2012 09:01 PM, Adam Jon Richardson wrote: > However, the aliases would allow developers to better communicate > intentions AND provide more information for IDE's and static analyses > tools. 1) You are trying to solve a social problem through technology. That usually does not work. 2) What you want to achieve is already possible through docblocks. -- Sebastian Bergmann Co-Founder and Principal Consultant http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://thePHP.cc/