Re: Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote

Stan Vassilev wrote: >> +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 > > Or this can wait until 6.0, when (as I hear) we'll have case-sensitive > class names, so Object/object, Int/int won't cause collisions. > > I'm really puzzled why a non-essential, and for the past months > (years?) controversial and always rejected feature such as strict type > hints, has everyone turning 180 degrees and putting it in a minor > release in the course of a week. Hi, To clarify, my vote was for 6.0.0, I did not catch the "put in 5.3" part of Ilia's original email. Greg