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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP-DEV [RFC] Property Accessors v1.2 : Typehints
 / Accessor Syntax
From: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com (Stas Malyshev)

Hi!

> 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.

I have no idea what "rock-solid modern tool" means, though PHP is
trivially a modern tool by being a tool and existing right now ;)

> Type hinting in parameters is a really good thing, and it doesn't
> transformed PHP in a strongly typed language.

It however gave a permission to people to try sneak in strong-typedness
through various backdoors arguing exactly that: "but we have strong
typing for parameters, why not for other things?" I think it is not the
right approach. Also, the fact is that other dynamic languages do not
have strong typing. It may be they just aren't smart enough to recognize
everybody needs it - or there may be a reason why it doesn't happen. I
think there is a reason, which again was outlined some 9000 times here
on the list.

> Doing the same for object properties (always optional) could be very useful.

Not really, since PHP is not a compiled language and as such does not
have static type controls. Now not only every foo($bar) can blow up but
also every $foo->bar = $baz. Not very useful.
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