Raymond Plante on :
How do we vote to get this added back into PHP 5.4 ?!??!!?
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Wednesday, November 21. 2012PHP 5.4 Type Hints Patch
I've recently started work on porting our internal company PHP patches over to PHP 5.4 as part of our migration from 5.3 to 5.4 One of those patches is the type-hint patch that introduces scalar type hints to PHP (something I wrote originally for PHP 5.1), something that was briefly included in PHP 5.4 but then (unfortunately) reverted.
Since I feel that type-hints is a pretty handy feature to have as it eliminates many possible errors, improves code interrogation and addresses some of the limitations currently being worked-around via annotations I've decided to share this patch with the community. The patch is available for download at: http://ilia.ws/patch/php54_type_hints.txt it applies cleanly against PHP 5.4.8 as well as 5.4 branch (5.4.9RC1). I suspect it will work with earlier versions of PHP 5.4 as well. The patch includes full test coverage around the new functionality and all of the existing tests continue to pass (so nothing is broken). Trackbacks
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Jason Bronson on :
+1 for me, love the patch let's roll this into php already.
Anonymous on :
It would be sooo nice to have this in the core!
Simon Schick on :
This is something that has been heavily discussed at the start of this year.
Three different approaches for what got discussed as type hinting ... I didn't quite got which approach you followed: http://nikic.github.com/2012/03/06/Scalar-type-hinting-is-harder-than-you-think.html Some (I don't quite know what) of this stuff is something where patches are available as well, so there would be nothing preventing it than getting into the heavy discussion again  You can drop me a mail .. I have links of all the threads created that time because I thought "maybe I'll find the time to contribute to PHP .." but I havent
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