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 on 5.3. The window for adding new major features to 5.3 is obviously long gone. Not sure why you are even suggesting it. +0 on parts of it for the next major release. You still haven't convinced me that strict type checking won't cause more problems than it will solve, but I do see the benefits. -Rasmus