Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, 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: ð») > > wyÁÉïdµ´\Ì°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 Obviously, that was not for putting it in PHP 5.3, but in HEAD only. regards, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org twitter: @derickr