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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Resource typehint and return type
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> The reason for this is that the resource type is an anachronism from an
> age in which PHP did not have objects, yet still needed to make certain
> types of data opaque. The resource type is a type that exists only to

I think more specific reason is not that resource type is outdated, but
that resource is not really a type - it's a collection of types. Mysql
connection is a resource, and file is a resource, but they are certainly
not interchangeable. So typing a value as "resource" would not achieve
you much.

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Stas Malyshev
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