Re: AW: [PHP-DEV] PHP7 and types

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 1:40 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > > Like I said, adding type checks to every assignment is a rather large > change, and I doubt it can be done without some nasty performance costs. > > Honestly, I would rather have a speedy runtime and put the effort into a > static analysis mode built into PHP. The stated goal of so many who push > the strict types everywhere argument is that it helps find bugs. So > let's have an analyze mode that finds these bugs without bogging down > the runtime with thousands of type checks. > > -Rasmus > > Given the size of the change is possibly much larger than I expected. And given that I'm new to the core and its probably not within my wheelhouse to create such a large change, I'm probably not the right person to do the work. As such I think this thread will just die, unless someone wants to volunteer for the work - in which case I would be glad to offer an help I can and write up and manage the RFC. Thanks for all your thoughtful responses!