Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/02/07 02:33

Rik Wasmus wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:51:59 +0100, Jerry Stuckle
> <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Norman Peelman wrote:
>>> Philluminati wrote:
>>>> I've been looking on the Internet and I can't seem to see any one
>>>> specifying a variable with a type. Will someone please tell me it can
>>>> be done.
>>>>
>>>> int $tablename = 0;
>>>>
>>>> rather than
>>>>
>>>> var $tablename = 0;
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible?
>>>>
>>>> If not, do you all go back to using hungarian notation in order to
>>>> know what data types your working so you don't accidently set false
>>>> and true against a flag which is supposed to 0 and -1?
>>>>
>>> You could name your variables to match the data you expect them to
>>> hold, for instance:
>>> $bTemp --> boolean
>>> $sTemp --> string
>>> $iTemp --> integer
>>> $fTemp --> float
>>> ...it may help you visually.
>>> Norm
>>>
>>
>> Which is Hungarian notation - and something most of us don't use in PHP.
>>
>
> Hmm, maybe a deviation here, I see this more often then not..

Hi, Rik,

I see it very seldom on untyped languages such as PHP. It is, however,
quite common in languages like C and PASCAL - although it seems to
becoming less common there, also (IMHE, of course).

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