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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Protocol Type Hinting
From: inefedor@gmail.com ("Nikita Nefedov")

On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:57:15 +0400, Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I want to throw out this draft RFC to get the concept floating around and
> get feedback early.
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/protocol_type_hinting
>
> There are still open questions, and a more complete (and cleaner)
> implementation will be needed before officially proposing it, but I  
> wanted
> to get the concept out as soon as possible.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Anthony

Hey,

That's great, just great, I have no more words :3

By looking at the diff I see it will only work for type-hints in  
functions/methods. Could we also see something like "$var instanceof  
<ProtoInterface>"? I fear it can't be done this way because of parser  
limitations, but I believe this feature would be as useful as type-hinting  
in functions.

And again, that's great :)