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

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:38 PM, 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 Hello, a union type would be an union of types - so it should be int|bool, shouldn't it? (Also, I don't personally like the idea of union types in general, but it's not relevant to the current RFC, so I won't comment more on that issue.) Still, maybe the title of the RFC should change to "Reserve More Keywords in PHP 7", so it's not misleading? PS: Thanks for the info about internal stuff, didn't know about that. :) Regards Pavel Kouril