Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:101028 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 82281 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2017 10:13:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Nov 2017 10:13:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lists@rhsoft.net; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lists@rhsoft.net; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain rhsoft.net designates 91.118.73.15 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lists@rhsoft.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 91.118.73.15 mail.thelounge.net Received: from [91.118.73.15] ([91.118.73.15:11097] helo=mail.thelounge.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id B1/B0-09857-DDFEAF95 for ; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 05:13:50 -0500 Received: from rh.thelounge.net (Authenticated sender: h.reindl@thelounge.net) by mail.thelounge.net (THELOUNGE MTA) with ESMTPSA id 3ySLX95mpszXMj for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2017 11:13:45 +0100 (CET) To: internals@lists.php.net References: <64.21.07742.EF158F95@pb1.pair.com> <71.50.09857.3BBEAF95@pb1.pair.com> Message-ID: <6643d10b-8703-693c-15c2-da338022ef41@rhsoft.net> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 11:13:45 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <71.50.09857.3BBEAF95@pb1.pair.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: de-CH Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC - Array Of for PHP 7 From: lists@rhsoft.net ("lists@rhsoft.net") Am 02.11.2017 um 10:55 schrieb Tony Marston: > "Kalle Sommer Nielsen"  wrote in message >> I fail to see how it offers "negative benefits to the vast number of >> programmers who are happy with the language as it currently exists", I > > If it's put into the language then it affects 100% of the users, but > what percentage of the user base would actually take advantage of this > feature? If it's only 1% then for the other 99% it's a complete waste of > time how does any feature you don't use affect you? i don't care about pdo and many other core extensions nor about namespaces, traits and so on - but they don't affect me at all