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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Renaming type-hints to something else?
From: thomas.gutbier@anthrotec.de (Thomas Gutbier)

Am 17.09.2014 um 16:43 schrieb Levi Morrison:
> class ReflectionType
> Methods:
>    ReflectionFunction::hasReturnType
>    ReflectionFunction::getReturnType
>    ReflectionParameter::hasType
>    ReflectionParameter::getType

This looks most straightforward to me while I dont
see any benefit by adding some suffix like Hint,
Decl or Declaration.

Also I don't like the term "Type Hinting" already
used in the documentation.

Despite the change of a well known (but somwhat misleading)
term i think it would be more descriptive to call this two
concepts "Parameter Types" and "Return Types".