Re: [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Mon, 09 Feb 2015 10:29:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints | ||
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Hi,
> On 9 Feb 2015, at 08:04, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote:
>
> this is more or less true. :(
> The proposal is presented in an unfair way to include strict typing without
> the ability to vote for weak types only.
Oddly, nobody seems to complain that it's unfair if I side with the weak typing camp, despite
that being equally unfair.
> Despite of semantic arguments, the implementation is a bit immature and
> introduces slowdown for any code without type hints.
The implementation could do with improvement, this is true. However I suspect any slowdown is minor
at best, and this could be dealt with in future. The RFC is more about the language change than the
implementation.
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Andrea Faulds
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