RE: [PHP-DEV] Strict typing (was: Typehints)
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:38:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Strict typing (was: Typehints) | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lukas Kahwe Smith [mailto:mls@pooteeweet.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 5:19 AM
> To: RQuadling@googlemail.com
> Cc: Zeev Suraski; Ilia Alshanetsky; Stas Malyshev; Johannes Schlüter; Kalle
> Sommer Nielsen; Internals; Derick Rethans
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Strict typing (was: Typehints)
>
>
> On 11.08.2010, at 14:14, Richard Quadling wrote:
>
> > So, the trunk keeps strict typing.
> >
> no .. a controversial patch like this should never have gotten into trunk
> without a vote. the only place for this patch in the svn.php.net repo would be
> a feature branch.
I completely agree. I don't know how this patch sneaked in and there clearly is a vast majority
against it. We have discussed several times over the years on why such strict type hinting does not
make sense for PHP.
Andi