Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:82943 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 77236 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2015 10:48:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Feb 2015 10:48:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 217.147.176.214 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.147.176.214 mail4-2.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [217.147.176.214] ([217.147.176.214:48809] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 62/91-01961-28C13E45 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 05:48:35 -0500 Received: (qmail 31576 invoked by uid 89); 17 Feb 2015 10:48:32 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 31569, pid: 31573, t: 0.0677s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.8?) (lester@rainbowdigitalmedia.org.uk@86.189.147.37) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 17 Feb 2015 10:48:32 -0000 Message-ID: <54E31C7F.2040706@lsces.co.uk> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:48:31 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <011801d04a07$83ab1c00$8b015400$@php.net> <016f01d04a3a$e9183220$bb489660$@php.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Reviving scalar type hints From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 17/02/15 06:20, Sara Golemon wrote: > * Typedefs (e.g. TypeDef (int|float) numeric; -- Some defined as > standard (like numeric), others user-definable) And also ... int4, int8 and similar for correctly constrained values. In an ideal world the whole SQL standard types would be available, but this at least would allow int to become an unconstrained object if people want that. It's the whole "we can fix it later" that I don't like ... especially when other votes are changing the goal posts in parallel. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk