Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:28:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening) | ||
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On 23 Jul 2014, at 22:17, Robert Williams <rewilliams@thesba.com> wrote:
> Although I don’t have voting rights, I would completely support a separate RFC to remove the
> aliases in PHP 6/7. But in the mean time, as long as they’re still in the language, I think they
> need to be fully supported anywhere their “real” counterparts can be used. Hack didn’t just
> remove them in some cases, it removed them across the board. And I think that’s the right
> approach: they’re supported across the board until they’re no longer supported, and then
> they’re not supported anywhere.
Right, but none of the aliases are reserved words already and I really don’t want to introduce
more reserved words than I have to, otherwise it’s going to upset a lot of people.
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Andrea Faulds
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