Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote

Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > Last week or so there was a fairly detailed discussion on the internals > list regarding type hinting based on my original patch. Since then the > patch has been revised to address the major concerns that were > identified (breakage of binary compatibility) as well extended with > additional functionality (object hint, type casting, reflection support, > etc...). > > The final patch is available here: > http://ilia.ws/patch/type_hint_53_v2.txt > The test suit is available here: > http://ia.gd/patch/type_hint_tests.tar.bz2 > > I would like to ask all developers to voice their opinions of whether it > makes sense to add this to 5.3 or to throw it away (either one is fine > btw). To keep the process simple & flamewar free, please restrict > yourself to +/- (1/0), next week monday I'll run a tally of the votes > and based on the result we can determine how to proceed further. +1 if the object type hint is change to use T_CLASS so we don't break every external package using "Object" as a base class. http://www.google.com/codesearch?as_q=class\s%2Bobject&btnG=Search+Code&hl=en&as_lang=php&as_license_restrict=i&as_license=&as_package=&as_filename=&as_case= Greg