Re: Reserve even more type hints RFC

Nikita Popov wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> > wrote: > >> I've noticed that the "Reserve Even More Types in PHP 7" RFC[1] has been >> moved to "Process and Policy" with the comment "needs no impl". > > I've moved the RFC based on Sara's mail in the voting thread [1]. Quoting: > >> There's no language in the RFC about >> actually throwing errors or other code-breaking behavior. Therefore, >> even should all of them pass, it does *NOT* mean that your code using >> these names suddenly stops working on PHP7. It means that you have >> been warned that using the names of intrinsics is a bad idea, and that >> the language reserves the /right/ to make doing so an error at some >> point in the future. > > I also know that at least some of the votes were cast under the assumption > that this is just a "documentation" reservation, as opposed to throwing > errors. Thanks for the explanation. I must have missed (or simply forgotten about) this mail. The voters have probably more carefully followed the discussion, so enforcing the reservation by convention has been part of the decision. > [1]: http://markmail.org/message/3zehjdlvuhv5sosq -- Christoph M. Becker