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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 11:02:01 +0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hints v0.2
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)

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As I already told, in my opinion, version 0.1 was the perfect solution that
fit into PHP semantic very well.

declare(strict_types=3D1); - is really weird solution.
It changes type hinting behavior per file scope, so, just to try strict
type hinting in a big project, people will have to change every single PHP
file.
From the RFC text, I didn't completely understand, if declare() affects
call site or declaration. Will we able to call the same function using weak
type hinting from on file and with strict from the other?
"The strict type checking mode also affects extension and built-in PHP
functions", sin(1) - error !!!

Strict type hinting is not suitable for PHP by definition (as a weakly
typed language), however, I see, it may be useful in some cases.
I would prefer to have "weak" types at first, then think about introducing
ability to switch to "strict" type hinting in context of use-cases.

Thanks. Dmitry.




On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:

> Good evening,
>
> The RFC has been updated to cover return types, since Levi=E2=80=99s Retu=
rn Types
> RFC has passed. The patch is a work in progress: it works, but lacks test=
s
> for return types.
>
> Version 0.3 of the RFC can be found here:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hints
>
> Thanks!
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