Re: [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints

> On 9 בפבר׳ 2015, at 02:04, Jordi Boggiano <j.boggiano@seld.be> wrote: > >> On 08/02/2015 23:24, Zeev Suraski wrote: >> There's zero or virtually zero controversy surrounding the weak typing RFC, >> the one that was v0.1. The controversy wasn't (and isn't) about what was in >> v0.1, but rather, about what wasn't in there, namely, strict typing; Not in >> the contents of the v0.1 RFC itself, which, again, had zero controversy >> around and is effectively being voted on as an integral part of the current >> RFC. You have virtually all of the supporters of strict typing voting in >> favor of the current RFC, also voting in favor of the v0.1 elements which >> are an integral part of it. > > By this logic, the current proposal also does not take anything away from weak-typing > proponents (which I guess I am a part of FWIW). It lets everyone be happy in their corner. > > I don't see how this is worse than one side winning by ignoring the other. It's simple. We have two proposals here, A and B. A - has pretty much everybody agreeing with is a good idea. Nobody objects to it. It's under consensus. B - has a large number of people thinking it's alien to PHP, and has many people objecting to it. The vote is on A+B. Zeev