On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Andrea Faulds <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
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> > On 3 Feb 2015, at 04:07, Dmitry Stogov <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I have similar opinion. Strict typing looks foreign for PHP.
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> It is in a way, yes. PHP has traditionally been “weakly-typed” everywhere.
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> That being said, we’re not always weakly-typed (there are strict type
> checks in some places), and userland code has sometimes done strict type
> checks anyway.
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> > I see, strict type hints may be useful.
> > Aspecially for testing and error detection, but anyaway, I'm not sure if
> and how it should be enabled. Declare() is a working solution, but it's not
> excelent.
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> It’s not a perfect solution, but I haven’t seen anything that seems to be
> much better. The best bit about declare() is that it would make strict
> types completely optional, so people who don’t like them wouldn’t have to
> use them, even if they call code which does.
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I agree. It's probably the best solution that we saw. But it's still not
good enough,
It would be great to make the obvious part of the proposal accepted first.
I would suggest to make two separate voting questions.
1) Enable scalar type hinting with standard rules.
2) In addition enable strict type hinting triggered by declare().
Thanks. Dmitry.
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