Re: [RFC][DISCUSSION] Strong Typing Syntax
| From: | Andreas Hennings | Date: | Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:23:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC][DISCUSSION] Strong Typing Syntax | ||
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On 10 January 2018 at 19:59, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:
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> Now if the RFC was a plan for baking a compile-time static analysis engine
> into PHP itself, that would be interesting. But that is a *massive* project.
Even with my limited understanding of the engine, I can imagine this
to be a lot of work.
But it sounds much better to me than adding more expensive runtime type checks.
I think it would be worth exploring as a long-term direction.