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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2 : Typehints /
 Accessor Syntax
From: amaury@amaury.net (Amaury Bouchard)

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2012/10/16 Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>

> >> public DateTime $date;
> >
> > This is *real* progress, even if under the hood all it does is wrap
>
> I think it's a movement in wrong direction. Again, it is an attempt to
> make PHP a strongly typed language, which would not work well in a
> dynamic language like PHP, for reasons that were amply explained in 9000
> discussions we had on this topic before.


Not necessarily strongly typed. (sorry to land on this topic afterwards)
As I see PHP, it's a language that can be used as an informal scripting
language, but also as a rock-solid modern tool.
Type hinting in parameters is a really good thing, and it doesn't
transformed PHP in a strongly typed language.
Doing the same for object properties (always optional) could be very useful.

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