Re: [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints

OK. But maybe that's why PHP is better than those languages :) On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >