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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Renaming type-hints to something else?
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Sara Golemon wrote (on 17/09/2014):
> My general feeling is to leave it alone.  I agree that it's a misnomer, but as has been mentioned, it's a well established misnomer.  I don't see a big gain from it apart from academic purity.

I guess in that way it's similar to "overloading", which has a rather 
odd meaning in PHP, as the manual page notes: 
http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php