Re: [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints

On Feb 7, 2015 6:46 PM, "Matteo Beccati" <php@beccati.com> wrote: > > Hi Lars, > > > On 07/02/2015 04:36, Lars Strojny wrote: >> >> 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. > > > Maybe it's just me, but I didn't quite understand the point you are making here. Are you saying that declares are more or less like ini settings? Somehow related but for such things, a notion of package (aka the discussions we had back then about namespace vs package) would be amazingly handy here.