Re: Type hinting - Request for Discussion

hi, I'm still in favour of #2 (Ilia's patch) as I don't see a real benefit of a weak typing implementation, it defeats the main goal of this addition. I'm also still opposed to add such thing in 5.3.x. Cheers, On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Zeev Suraski<zeev@zend.com> wrote: > 2.  Move forward with the semantics of the current patch.  This approach has > substantial drawbacks in my opinion, and is a strong misfit with the rest of > PHP (again, in my opinion).  See previous posts from Stas, Rasmus, myself > and maybe others illustrating this point.  Lukas's 'Strict and Weak Typing > RFC' (http://wiki.php.net/rfc/typecheckingstrictandweak) has some good > insight as to why strict typing is problematic in PHP. -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org