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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/30/06 16:23
Treefrog wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> 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.
>
> PHP is a great language, but the masses of incompetant coders out there
> do absolutely nothing to help the language grow. I know we all have to
> start somewhere, so please don't think I'm being eliteist, because I'm
> not, but something has to be done to try to fix the mess out there.
>
> Surely the contractors on here have witnessed this, or is it just me?
>
> What is everyone else's opinion?
>
> Cheers,
>
> T'rog
>
Hi, T'rog,
Well, one of the big attractions to PHP is the lack of strict typing. You don't
have to go through all the overhead of declaring variable types (or even
variables unless they are class members). Getting rid of the "administrative
overhead" allows you to concentrate on the problem.
You can write good code in any language (except maybe COBOL :-) ). You can
write bad code in any language - including Java and C++. However, IMHO, strict
typing does in general get you to write "better" code.
I think a good compromise between old and new would be a "strict" flag. It
could be set in the php.ini file or .htaccess (on Apache, if allowed). Perhaps
it could even be a parse-time command (ini_set isn't executed until too late),
similar to C/C++'s pragma statement. The last would allow someone to convert a
website one file at a time to strict. Then when everything's changed, change
the php.ini file, or, if on a shared server, at a statement to .htaccess.
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