Re: Coercive Scalar Type Hints RFC

Hi, 2015-02-21 14:22 GMT-03:00 Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>: > All, > > I’ve been working with François and several other people from internals@ > and the PHP community to create a single-mode Scalar Type Hints proposal. > > I think it’s the RFC is a bit premature and could benefit from a bit more > time, but given the time pressure, as well as the fact that a not fully > compatible subset of that RFC was published and has people already > discussing it, it made the most sense to publish it sooner rather than > later. > > The RFC is available here: > > wiki.php.net/rfc/coercive_sth > > Comments welcome! > > Zeev > Thanks for your effort and for proposing the RFC so quick. But indeed, as you said, this is really premature. According to my interpretation the RFC proposes a potentially huge bc break on internal functions usage while the competing (recently withdraw) RFC was BC compatible regarding this. Having this proposal without a working patch, so we can try the real impact it could have before form opinions, frankly, doesn't sound like a good idea. I know it's still a draft but, considering the RFC is aimed to v7.0, I hope to see a working implementation before the feature freeze just like what was exemplary made with the other previous withdraw proposals. Thanks, Márcio