Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote

On Mon, July 6, 2009 7:52 pm, 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 (subject to release master veto) And I doubt that my vote counts anyway... This seems simple enough to grok, and seems to make the type-hinter crowd happy, except for the name "hint" -- Some people ask for gifts here. I just want you to buy an Indie CD for yourself: http://cdbaby.com/search/from/lynch