Re: Types on the right or on the left

> On 3 Nov 2014, at 19:28, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. This is an unfair comparison. Hack is a compatible superset of PHP, much like TypeScript is a compatible superset of JavaScript. > 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. I’d rather there be less divergence between Hack and PHP, to limit the damage that it causes to the community. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/