Re: Scalar type hinting

From: Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:04:49 +0000
Subject: Re: Scalar type hinting
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On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:09:08 +0100, Johannes Schlüter <[email protected]> wrote:


On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 13:05 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote:


I'd have to come up with some OTHER scenario not involving fatal
error, such as:

strict $db = new DB();


The example is wrong. The new operator will always return an instance of
the given class (or there will be an exception). Use



This is not true. The new operator can return NULL. The intl extension uses this extensively:


-- 
Gustavo Lopes

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