Re: Re: Opinions / Votes Needed

Nathan Rixham wrote: >> You can't have your cake and eat it. You can't/shouldn't have strong >> and loose typing in the same language. In my opinion. > > "Instead of providing programmers with a black or white choice between > static or dynamic typing, we should instead strive for softer type > systems. That is, static typing where possible, dynamic typing when > needed. Unfortunately there is a discontinuity between contemporary > statically typed and dynamically typed languages as well as a huge > technical and cultural gap between the respective language > communities." I'm not sure whether to take you seriously now - you're quoting from a Microsoft research paper? :-) >> By all means create a PHP++, but leave PHP as it is. It has >> enough "feature"-bloat already. > > you do have a good point, I've thought that myself often and indeed it > was brought up in the namespace discussions - however if it's optional > then why fork? Because it would be such a major change (as Tony has also pointed out) - ones PHP code would work with "php -normal", but would fail miserably with "php -strongtyping". In essence, with your optional strong typing enabled, you'd have a different language. /Per Jessen, Zürich