Re: Strict types

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:53:47 -0800, Treefrog wrote:
> For a while now I've been wishing PHP had (at least the option to enable)
> strict types. It would help a massive amount in BIG applications, and
> maybe start to taper the millions of lines of crap code that's out there.

To be honest the only real problem is with objects. For large
applications a consistent naming scheme helps with simple variables and in
a lot of cases it's not really important what the variable is.

With regards to objects, PHP5 now has type hints which ensures a parameter
to a function or method is of a given type (class):

function bar(Foo $foo)
{
  ...
}

Cheers,

Andy

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