Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hints v0.2

Hi Andrey, > On 2 Feb 2015, at 08:55, Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: >> Hi Dmitry, >> >>> On 2 Feb 2015, at 07:02, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: >>> >>> As I already told, in my opinion, version 0.1 was the perfect solution that >>> fit into PHP semantic very well. >> >> I don't like the original. Weak types work to a degree, but they don't fulfill >> the use case of a lot of developers, and consequently the RFC wasn't too popular outside >> internals. > > I still think that caller-controlled "strict mode" doesn't fulfill > that use case either. How doesn't it? It doesn't force the model upon your users, sure, but something like that is never going to get past internals anyway. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/