Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)

From: Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:43:46 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)
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On 13 Jul 2014, at 16:28, Rouven Weßling <me@rouvenwessling.de> wrote:

> On 13 Jul 2014, at 17:05, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
> 
>> On 13 Jul 2014, at 16:00, Rouven Weßling <me@rouvenwessling.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> One thing however seems like a rather bad idea, and that is exposing the type of
>>> resource in this way. Resources are not compatible between each other, making such a hint not very
>>> useable. If people start adding this hint to their methods it will also make it much harder to
>>> change resources into objects (like it has been done for gmp and I have a pull request for hash)
>> 
>> Those are good points. Is there any sane way to hint for them, then?
> 
> I don’t think so. I suggest leaving them out for now. I hope we’ll see mores resources
> converted into classes but if that doesn’t happen hinting for resources can still be addressed
> later.

I agree, and after asking Anthony about it, I’ve removed the resource type hint from the RFC and
patch. Besides, it isn’t really a scalar type (in its semantics, at least) anyway, and there’s
no cast operator for it.
--
Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/

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