Re: [RFC][PRE-VOTE] Reserving More Types in PHP 7

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Bob Weinand <bobwei9@hotmail.com> wrote: >> Am 14.03.2015 um 10:21 schrieb Pavel Kouřil <pajousek@gmail.com>: >> >> On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: >>> RFC Link: >>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reserve_more_types_in_php_7 >>> >>> The proposal has changed from the original. It no longer reserves the >>> aliases out of the interest of reserving the smallest useful, >>> uncontroversial subset. Some people want to remove aliases for these >>> types so in the interest of being as uncontroversial as possible I am >>> no longer proposing to remove them. >>> >>> This will go into voting on March 15th unless something comes up >>> between now and then to persuade me otherwise. >>> >>> -- >>> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >>> >> >> Hello, >> >> why do you consider a "true" and "false" as a type? It's not a >> type. it's a >> value? >> >> Regards >> Pavel Kouril > > These aren't types. But useful for e.g. union types (int|false). [By the way they're > internally handled as different types… but that's an implementation detail…] > > Also, he doesn't call them anywhere types, it's just the title. > > Bob > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > This is a solid plan. Vote this and everyone should +1 it, so if this scalar squabble results in a a 0-0-0 score we can at least add scalars later. Regardless of scalar types it's just a good idea, and would give lolphp one less thing to pissmoan about. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4103480/really-php-argument-1-passed-to-my-function-must-be-an-instance-of-string-s