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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:59:28 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Typed Properties
From: vsuraski@gmail.com (Zeev Suraski)

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On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:44 PM Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote:

> > My logic is quite simple:
> > 1.  Something as big as Typed Properties shouldn't be a last minute,
> rushed
> > RFC.  Really - any RFC shouldn't - but in particular major language
> changes.
>
> I have seen this sentiment expressed elsewhere. I want to personally
> affirm that Nikita and Bob have been working hard on this for a long
> time. This is not a last minute change being rushed. They have been
> quite thorough and have discovered and fixed many edge cases that I
> suspect other authors would not have found or would have ignored. Yes,
> it is being voted on in the narrow gap between first alphas and
> feature freeze but that does not mean it is rushed.
>

It is being rushed as far as the RFC process & discussions around it are
concerned - that's what I meant.  I did not dispute for a second that the
patch looks thoroughly thought out and a lot of effort went into it - it's
very evident and I acknowledged it already.

Zeev

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