Re: Re: Improving PHP's type system
| From: | Rick Widmer | Date: | Tue, 19 Apr 2016 23:21:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Improving PHP's type system | ||
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On 4/19/2016 5:10 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
Are too many of these incompatible shiny things, too fast, the main reason so many PHP users are on older versions? IMHO, yes. RickIn general, improving the type system provides a much more interesting and practical playground for any kind of tool that would rely on staticThat's my point - "more interesting playground" does not sound like a reason enough to mess with the type system of the language used by millions. This sounds like a good description of a thesis project or a academic proof-of-concept language, not something mature widely-used language prizing simplicity should be aiming for. I completely agree that *if* we added a ton of shiny things into PHP then there would be a lot of interesting stuff to play with. I am saying that is not the reason enough to actually add them.