Re: [PHP-DEV] Renaming type-hints to something else?
[email protected] (Levi Morrison)
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Andrea Faulds <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Here are my thoughts. > > The general concept should be called Optional Type Declarations, to replace “Type Hinting". They are type declarations, and they are optional. Thus the name. For the things themselves, they’re just Type Declarations, to replace “Type Hints". My worry about "optional type declarations" is that once a type is present it isn't optional anymore. Could be confusing and I am unsure if that's any better than a "type hint". If we change it, maybe just call them "type declarations". I think just referring to them as "types" could be too ambiguous.