Re: [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints

On 5 February 2015 23:22:26 GMT, Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> wrote: >having such a declare(…) syntax will be ridiculed by the broader app >dev community until the end of time… I think that's laying it on a bit thick. It's no worse than Python's "from __future__ import", or JS's 'use strict;' (quotes included). I wish unknown declare directives were ignored, though, because it would make for a great forward-compatibility mechanism. Still, that, like the syntax format, is a decision made many years ago.