RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [INFO] Basic Scalar Types
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Sun, 15 Mar 2015 18:10:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [INFO] Basic Scalar Types | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Kouřil [mailto:pajousek@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 7:52 PM
> To: Zeev Suraski
> Cc: Bob Weinand; PHP Internals
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [INFO] Basic Scalar Types
>
> I like your idea, but there's a problem with this (apart from the thing
> that it's
> not supposed to be in vote for 7.0 if you go by the rules, based on
> opinion of
> some people here).
>
> You are saying "we would have given the community at large something
> that's closer to what it really wants", but the people maintaining PHP
> vote on
> that, not the community and userland developers (and that's a problem with
> most of the features here, that the "direction" in which PHP evolves is
> basically chosen by C programmers*).
That is factually incorrect. C coders are a small minority amongst the
voters on this RFC - you can check it yourself by clicking on each voter and
seeing what Karma they have.
Also, the majority of C contributors also develop or developed in PHP as
well (myself included).
Zeev