Comments on: PHP Type Hinting

By: A.R.

A.R. — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:20:36 +0000

The SPL types SplInt, SplString, etc, are rather unsightly.

What would be nice is some syntactic sugar, e.g.:

int $x;
translates to: $x = new SplInt();

int $x = 123;
translates to: $x = new SplInt(123);

function f(int $x) { … }
translates to: function f(SplInt $x) { … }

One advantage of type-hinting is that PHP compilers would be able to deliver a huge performance gain (more dramatic than interpreted PHP).

Justin Hendrickson — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:15:53 +0000

I noticed they added some new SPL classes to handle basic types. I guess this is going to superceed it though.

Philip Olson — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:58:34 +0000

I’m fairly certain this won’t happen in 5.3, so likely wait for the next minor (5.4 or 6.0) release for this type of feature.