Re: [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type

> > On Dec 31, 2017, at 10:33 AM, "lists@rhsoft.net" <lists@rhsoft.net> wrote: > > > >> Am 31.12.2017 um 11:27 schrieb Tony Marston: >> "Michael Morris" wrote in message >> news:CAEUnE0e67q2HMX8bmFjy5Mx8GMfxD=dNbSwF9cSuYntyn8xP8A@mail.gmail.com... >>> >>>> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:37 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Not being able to vote, many of us have no option to complain about the >>>> way things are going. Currently there seems to be several styles of PHP >>>> form the nice and simple untyped version I moved to from very strictly >>>> typed hard compiled code I'd been using up until then, through to >>>> current code which is reliant on third party things like PSR and >>>> Composer and expects only strictly typed PHP. >>> >>> This is born of the fact that while ignoring datatype makes learning PHP >>> easier, it makes using it harder - especially when testing. >> I strongly disagree. I have been using PHP since 2001 and I have never used type hinting in >> any form whasoever. Does it make testing more difficult? No, it does not > > "I have never used type hinting in any form whasoever" - so how can you be qualified > at all to tell anything about the difference how it would be if you would have used it? Could the discussion be re-centered around the RFC at-hand rather than measuring "ego"? It seems that any thread that has both rhsoft and Tony involved devolves into a competition of opinion without much attempt to meet in the middle or understand one another. Thanks.