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List:       php-internals
Subject:    Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Type-hinted return values in PHP5?
From:       136.159.238.143
Date:       2007-07-30 15:44:12
Message-ID: D0.C5.59109.F470EA64 () pb1 ! pair ! com
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Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>> I think the only serious advantage I could see would be to allow 
>> context-assistance IDEs more data, so they could provide 
>> method-completion.
> 
> PHPDoc does that with @return tag.
> 
True but there will be times when the documentation is wrong[1] or when 
the function returns something that it shouldn't.

Again, this really has little to do with IDEs. It is aimed improving the 
interface language construct.

[1]http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38402

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