Re: Reviving scalar type hints

Larry, On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > On 02/20/2015 06:28 PM, Anthony Ferrara wrote: >> >> Considering I'm not targetting 7 (I've updated the RFC to hint this), we >> can choose what to do later depending on the exceptions result (whether to >> bypass execution in strict mode only, or for all calls). Thanks for the >> insight Anthony > > > That makes me very sad, as whether the strict option is there or not I'd > *really* love to see scalar hints in PHP 7 to complement return type > hinting. Timing just won't work while being fair with alternative proposals. I've said since I re-opened the proposal that I'm comfortable with it not targeting 7.0... Unless we're willing to push feature freeze by 2-3 weeks for it, it just doesn't make sense to target 7 with people working on an alternate proposal (since by definition they couldn't target 7). Anthony