Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote

-1 for 5.3.x . We should not add major language features at that stage. On 2009-07-07, Ilia Alshanetsky <ilia@prohost.org> 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. > > Ilia