Re: Make primitive type names reserved words (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] 5.4 features for vote (long))

On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Hannes Magnusson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 20:02, David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> wrote: >> On 2011-07-12, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: >>> hi, >>> >>> As of now I do not think we should allow this change, whether the RFC >>> is accepted or not does not matter as it will badly break BC. Unless >>> there is a patch allowing this change without affecting existing code >>> (main point being namespaced code working smoothly), this RFC should >>> be rejected. >>> >>> Cheers, >> >> >> I think this change has too much of an impact on backward compatibility. >> As long as we don't have a concrete implementation, I think we should >> let string, int not be reserved words. Argumentes were already presented. >> >> ps.: Pierre you might want to consider changing your vote in the wiki > > > This thread is an excellent example why attempting to reach consensus > by discussing things is important. > Voting should be considered as an desperate last resort, not the > primary mechanism. > > http://producingoss.com/en/consensus-democracy.html has several > very > related points. And each topic deserves its own thread, whereas this [original] thread lumped 10 separate topics together. Regards, Philip