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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Scalar Pseudo-type
From: TonyMarston@hotmail.com ("Tony Marston")

"Michael Morris"  wrote in message 
news:CAEUnE0e67q2HMX8bmFjy5Mx8GMfxD=dNbSwF9cSuYntyn8xP8A@mail.gmail.com...
>
>On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:37 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> Not being able to vote, many of us have no option to complain about the
>> way things are going. Currently there seems to be several styles of PHP
>> form the nice and simple untyped version I moved to from very strictly
>> typed hard compiled code I'd been using up until then, through to
>> current code which is reliant on third party things like PSR and
>> Composer and expects only strictly typed PHP.
>>
>>
>
>This is born of the fact that while ignoring datatype makes learning PHP
>easier, it makes using it harder - especially when testing.

I strongly disagree. I have been using PHP since 2001 and I have never used 
type hinting in any form whasoever. Does it make testing more difficult? No, 
it does not.

<snip>

-- 
Tony Marston