Re: Type hinting - Request for Discussion
| From: | Lukas Kahwe Smith | Date: | Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:59:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Type hinting - Request for Discussion | ||
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On 09.07.2009, at 13:10, Patrick ALLAERT wrote:
2009/7/9 Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>:thats a no go, since this would lead to incompatible PHP code. we have had various php.ini settings that have caused this and we do not want to pile onto this. regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.orgTwo other issues that we need to revisit: 1. Agree on when it will be implemented - I think it's pretty clear it should not go to 5.3.What would be the impact including this feature (once it is *technically* fine for everybody) in 5.3 code with #ifdef's so that this feature is enabled only at ./configure time and disabled by default. We could then imagine to switch this configure parameter as enabled by default in a future (major) release. This way, every vanilla PHP installation wouldn't suffer of BC problems while still providing the feature to a restricted set of users.