Re: Types on the right or on the left

From: Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:28:09 +0000
Subject: Re: Types on the right or on the left
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Hi! > PHP doesn’t need more inconsistency, sure, but we must be practical > here. It is bad if PHP and Hack have the same feature with different > syntax, it will cause developer confusion and further segment the > communities. Given that Hack is a different language, which was designed AFAIK with little input from PHP community, I don't see how there would be any confusion - it's like saying PHP and Perl or PHP and Java having different syntaxes leads to segmenting the communities. In fact, there are two different communities - though, of course, people can belong to both - and two different languages. I do not think Hack syntax should have much weight in decisions about what syntax to choose in PHP - it's a different language, even though it has many similarities.

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