Re: Concerns over handling of bug #49105

Alexander Trauzzi wrote:

I do not have the skills to implement such a feature, so it would be pointless to try and guilt me into making it, that's a bit of an impasse! :)

Likewise it should be pointless for you to guilt PHP's unpaid volunteers who do have the skills into implementing such a feature. Due to some combination of timing/phrasing/moon your idea hasn't caught interest and it would be wise to retreat for a while until there is more support, or until you can provide a patch. Even core PHP developers sometimes have ideas that get knocked back: http://ilia.ws/archives/207-Type-Hinting-Conclusion.html

However if you're being sincere, that's a good suggestion! Do you think it is worthwhile?

Writing well thought out proposals with testcases and examples is always a good idea. However in this case given the arguments against your first proposal and because you don't seem to have PHP internals knowledge, I would suggest you don't create any official PHP RFC since it is likely to be simply unworkable. My overall suggestion is to get some internals knowledge and keep persevering. Chris PS This discussion should have been on the internals mail list. -- Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal Twitter: http://twitter.com/ghrd