Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:34346 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 74913 invoked by uid 1010); 3 Jan 2008 20:28:08 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 74897 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2008 20:28:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Jan 2008 20:28:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:49241] helo=mx1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 02/F0-20810-2354D774 for ; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:27:33 -0500 Received: from us-ex1.zend.com ([192.168.16.5]) by mx1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 3 Jan 2008 22:27:26 +0200 Received: from [192.168.16.90] ([192.168.16.90]) by us-ex1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:27:22 -0800 Message-ID: <477D452A.9090906@zend.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:27:22 -0800 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derick Rethans CC: Markus Fischer , internals@lists.php.net References: <200801031903.01980.tomi@cumulo.fi> <1199380881.15292.11.camel@sbarrow-desktop> <20080103172813.GQ7861@mint.phcomp.co.uk> <477D2B40.9010302@fischer.name> <477D2CDB.3000005@zend.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Jan 2008 20:27:22.0671 (UTC) FILETIME=[0BBE13F0:01C84E47] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: Optional scalar type hinting From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) > patches out there, it doesn't slow down the general case. So why should > we *not* add it? (And yes, I changed my mind) My opinion is that the language is not a salad of features that somebody somewhere found useful. The language should have some directions and properties that make it easy to understand and handy to work with. Having both strict and non-strict typing in the same language does not seem like a good idea to me. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com