Re: The Game Theory of Scalar Type Hint Voting

On 25 February 2015 at 09:09, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: > Leigh, > > There isn't a weak-only proposal on the table. There's the original one > (dual mode) and the coercive one. Both have both strict and dynamic > elements in them. > I think that what Anthony proposed about a week or so ago, of having both > votes, and if both pass 2/3 - have another vote to choose between them > (where a simple majority wins) - makes the most sense in this uncharted > territory. > I think that opening the votes at the same time is probably a good idea. Ahoy, I know there isn't a weak-only proposal. Albert had previously suggested that a single proposal (the dual-mode one) should have a 3-way vote to pick default behaviour, instead of a simple yes/no on the whole proposal. In the spirit of game theory, this feels like a way to get people to vote for something they don't want (all votes for strict by default actually count as a vote for weak by default, which we know would take the majority). If that's not what he was referring to here, then I apologise, my mistake. Leigh.