Re: The Game Theory of Scalar Type Hint Voting
| From: | Dennis Birkholz | Date: | Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:01:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: The Game Theory of Scalar Type Hint Voting | ||
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Hi Lester,
Am 25.02.2015 um 12:48 schrieb Lester Caine:
> On 25/02/15 11:23, Dennis Birkholz wrote:
>> Or you could create a three-way vote, both proposals together need 2/3
>> majority over no-votes and the proposals that gets more than the other
>> is chosen.
>
> Even that simplifies things perhaps a little too much?
>
> The questions as I see them are ...
>
> Scalar Type Hinting - yes/no
> Type of hinting - weak/strict/other
> If only weak hinting accepted, option to add strict anyway - yes/no
>
> Changes to casting rules are a separate discussion?
> Change casting - yes/no/partial (selected tidy-up)
that is perfectly fine, I just hope that you will not do two competing
votes that both need 2/3+1 majority. Then both will fail and we (again)
have no scalar type hints at all!
Thanks
Dennis