Re: [RFC] Better type names for int64 RFC

2014.08.22. 17:56 ezt írta ("Jan Ehrhardt" <phpdev@ehrhardt.nl>): > > Andrea Faulds in php.internals (Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:32:51 +0100): > >I’m very much in favour of this RFC. It is not necessary to change > >the type names after all; if people turn on compiler warnings, they’ll > >find out what’s broken anyway. > > 'people'? Which people? > > Will a normal user ever notice anything of the change from long to int? > Isn't this something that only developers of extensions will notice? My > guess is that this chnage is only a minor point when converting > extensions to ng. > People means ext devs here. The concern raised here that if we delay the namechange then early adopters(ext developers adding support for php7) have to update their code twice. I don't think this will major pita (compared to the phpng changes or other upcoming stuff) but would have been nice resolving this before the merge