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From: Nilesh Govindarajan on 3 Apr 2010 21:29
On 04/03/10 23:00, Nathan Rixham wrote:
> Peter Pei wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> var_dump( array( true , 12 , "php already does this" ) );
>>>>
>>>> array(3) {
>>>> [0]=> bool(true)
>>>> [1]=> int(12)
>>>> [2]=> string(21) "php already does this"
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah. But this feature of PHP is a boon if used carefully and a curse
>>> if careless. You can get AMAZING results if you're not careful to
>>> check the data types ;)
>>>
>>
>> And that's why language like C# and java supports<> to restrict the
>> type of data a collection can hold.
>
> As a side point; I replicated a load of type safe collections etc for
> PHP (a good chunk of the java collections stuff) - If it's of use to
> anybody I can stick them in a google code project or suchlike.
>
> They'll obviously never be as fast as Java/C but they do allow for
> static typing of collections using primitive types or Classes.
>
> regards,
>
> Nathan

We don't want to decrease the performance, do we ?

Best is to use the is_* functions :P

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