Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:106520 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 35822 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2019 12:09:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (76.75.200.58) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 10 Aug 2019 12:09:43 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 11:37:18 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 46.59.72.204 Subject: Re: P++: FAQ From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) Message-ID: Hi Zeev, As the person who initially proposed and implemented strict_types, I think this is heading in the wrong direction. Perhaps that directive was a mistake, if it will lead to so many attempts inspired by it to fragment the language, including this one. Personally, I don't actually want a language like C++ or Java. PHP's flexibility is great, and I think splitting the language means going in a direction where you are forced to have everything be strict or nothing be. PHP++ sounds like Hack, but in mainline. I think it'll end up a mess in the long term. Regards, Andrea