Re: Reviving scalar type hints

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Leigh <leight@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 February 2015 at 05:48, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: >>>> We can sigh and tut about this not being "the PHP way", but the script >>>> author was the one who chose to enter into a tight contract, and the >>>> script author, not you, is the one who should have that authority over >>>> their own application. >>> >>> I find this view way too extreme. >>> >> You find giving authority over an application to the application >> author too extreme? > > And you find taking authority over a library away from the library > author completely acceptable? > > If I write an API that works perfectly well in strict mode, why > shouldn't I be able to turn strict on for my whole library? Do I just > tell users that non-strict mode constitutes undefined behavior for > this library, and refuse to fix any bugs that come up because of it? > > I'm sure I could find a way of detecting non-strict mode and throw a > fatal, or force access through a facade/wrapper of some sort where > I've turned on strict and made myself the caller. Isn't this equally > unhelpful? The point is some people will want strict turned on, and > they will find ways to force it on people. You're going to have to > live with it, so just make it a possibility from the outset. > ^ That. I've said the same thing multiple times already. Cheers, Andrey.