RE: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints

> -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Leverton [mailto:leverton@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2015 11:17 PM > To: Zeev Suraski > Cc: Jordi Boggiano; PHP internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: > > > > proposal everyone can rally behind, it very clearly failed. We didn't > > have to wait for a vote by the way, it was clear from the discussion > > on internals@. > > > Controversial RFCs are precisely the ones that SHOULD be voted on. Not really. These should be avoided as much as possible. > Policy states that 2/3s means consensus on core language changes. The > current 63.5% isn't too far from that. Just curious, but do you have a > different number in mind for this vote? 90%? 80%? I'm well aware of it as I wrote that policy. The goal of the policy was to prevent a situation where a temporary majority can introduce features into the language that would later on be impossible to reverse. It's not by any stretch a good mechanism to solve controversial votes, which again, should ideally be avoided as much as possible. It's just that there isn't a better mechanism. Zeev