Re: Reviving scalar type hints

Le 16/02/2015 23:50, François Laupretre a écrit :

So, IMO, the RFC is dead, whatever 2/3 or 3/4 we may have. Once it was clear that both camps would never agree, with every PHP founders against it, pushing it was useless. We're not electing a president, we're trying to ensure we make the right decision. The spirit is not the same.

Hi, Does it mean that in your mind the founders of the PHP language (basically Rasmus/Zeev/Andy) have a veto right on any RFC just because they are the founders, like in a company with shareholders? If out of 100 votes for a feature, 97 were pro but the 3 founders votes were against then the RFC is moot? What about the voters that have been actively making PHP alive in the last 4 years and that have more commits in PHP than the founders themselves? Their opinion is of less value than the founders' just for historical reasons? Do you really think the new developers that arrived in the last years (and yes Andrea was one of them) are less skilled, less clever and have less vision than the founders had 15 years ago? I think your reasoning is flawed, sorry :) Regards Pascal Chevrel