Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75416 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 64108 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2014 15:28:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Jul 2014 15:28:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=me@rouvenwessling.de; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=me@rouvenwessling.de; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain rouvenwessling.de designates 5.35.242.46 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: me@rouvenwessling.de X-Host-Fingerprint: 5.35.242.46 www.rouvenwessling.de Linux 2.6 Received: from [5.35.242.46] ([5.35.242.46:46513] helo=lvps5-35-242-46.dedicated.hosteurope.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 7D/69-16748-9B5A2C35 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:28:57 -0400 Received: from rouvens-air.localdomain (xdsl-89-0-231-245.netcologne.de [89.0.231.245]) by lvps5-35-242-46.dedicated.hosteurope.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CA96B69F0517; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:28:53 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:28:51 +0200 Cc: PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <9BEF5424-129A-4311-93FF-913837B4157C@rouvenwessling.de> References: <08503591-EFC8-48E6-984E-FFC292C5EA5F@ajf.me> To: Andrea Faulds X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening) From: me@rouvenwessling.de (=?windows-1252?Q?Rouven_We=DFling?=) On 13 Jul 2014, at 17:05, Andrea Faulds wrote: > On 13 Jul 2014, at 16:00, Rouven We=DFling = wrote: >=20 >> One thing however seems like a rather bad idea, and that is exposing = the type of resource in this way. Resources are not compatible between = each other, making such a hint not very useable. If people start adding = this hint to their methods it will also make it much harder to change = resources into objects (like it has been done for gmp and I have a pull = request for hash) >=20 > Those are good points. Is there any sane way to hint for them, then? I don=92t think so. I suggest leaving them out for now. I hope we=92ll = see mores resources converted into classes but if that doesn=92t happen = hinting for resources can still be addressed later. Best regards Rouven=