[Xapian-discuss] Understanding API Documentation for PHP

[James Aylett]

On 23 Sep 2011, at 01:39, Olly Betts wrote:

>> the aim is for idiomatic code in the bindings language to work,
>> and we do well in say Python but less well in others.
> 
> Python has this issue too:
> 
>>>> import xapian
>>>> doc = xapian.Document()
>>>> doc.add_term(7)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: in method 'Document_add_term', argument 2 of type 'std::string const &'

But that's expected behaviour in Python, not so much in PHP where things have a tendency to automatically mutate between types as convenient; Python is certainly more strongly typed than PHP (or it wouldn't have TypeError).

J

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