Re: [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints

Hi Andrea, > On 05 Feb 2015, at 21:14, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > [...] > Voting starts today (2015-02-05) and ends in two weeks’ time (2015-02-19). In addition to the > vote on the main RFC, there is also a vote on the type aliases issue, and a vote to reserve the type > names for future RFCs’ sake if this RFC fails. > > The RFC can be found here, and it contains a voting widget: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hints I realise how much effort you put into making scalar type hinting possible in PHP and I applaud you for that. Being a proponent of strict scalar type hinting I also understand the current RFC tries to find a compromise between both camps. It is probably the best we can come up with right now given we want to fullfill the following set of requirements: - Strict scalar hinting - Weak scalar hinting - Let the mode be chosen by the caller, not the callee I nevertheless decided voting against it as I am afraid the current RFC would do more long-term harm to the ecosystem than not having scalar type hints. My main concern is that the declare statement is basically a better behaviour changing ini setting and PHPs history is paved with those. I very much hope for scalar type hinting, especially a strict variant but this is not what we should merge. cu, Lars

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