Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:85586 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 30733 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2015 13:57:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Mar 2015 13:57:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=jmikola@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=jmikola@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.214.178 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: jmikola@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.214.178 mail-ob0-f178.google.com Received: from [209.85.214.178] ([209.85.214.178:33067] helo=mail-ob0-f178.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F9/12-19097-4C7AA155 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 08:57:24 -0500 Received: by obvd1 with SMTP id d1so27743290obv.0 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 06:57:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=GqbffanzWOO+r4xAywN+WTloyDeyPuMgncVRmk8eQGE=; b=fZE0mBnQ3e8cYWymhyGz3eKuweOQhlSgIvDGt8aBzo8QgW0DM1+mbtPwDF9unjfVvZ 3BvVDXJPmLFjhE6PB9EwjTnGRBdiKZC+A/YmYrE5B4VkSmthMLhPwp8+0D24aNaulq5m PZ6Uv8OmNjP/p/bS36rBO2gyRQle1p/Yy01dYvqX82pKfp9+FjzT6r8sH7j+6LBFsZ3k +NYYPhwMBVtS3YNdxQmkDck+eUlfcO2vB/qU0Mz8+bCQxUGxvenl5nB/Qr3yxSaWhPgd rbFl3PM0sKlcbGkYOENqbcABu4oyBwbirt+qh4CCt4GbXty+fXKuMeH8wQjm4KdjATpP 6Wvw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.116.102 with SMTP id jv6mr33822219oeb.50.1427810233245; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 06:57:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.202.197.73 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 06:57:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <3a939905cd5a06158c9e99d8af26e596@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:57:13 -0400 Message-ID: To: Christoph Becker Cc: Zeev Suraski , PHP internals Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e0115ef40c26837051295f998 Subject: [PHP-DEV] Naming of 'weak' type hints From: jmikola@gmail.com (Jeremy Mikola) --089e0115ef40c26837051295f998 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Monday, March 30, 2015, Christoph Becker > wrote: > > It appears to me that all of these suggestions may hide the fact that > the arguments are converted to the hinted types. So perhaps "converting > type hints" might be a good name. "Coercive" may be a concise term, without the negative connotation of weak/lax. -- jeremy mikola --089e0115ef40c26837051295f998--