Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:34460 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38676 invoked by uid 1010); 4 Jan 2008 19:17:02 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38651 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2008 19:17:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Jan 2008 19:17:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=sam@sambarrow.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=sam@sambarrow.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain sambarrow.com from 205.234.132.11 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: sam@sambarrow.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 205.234.132.11 scottsdale.servershost.net Received: from [205.234.132.11] ([205.234.132.11:56756] helo=scottsdale.servershost.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 8E/BD-63281-DAF7E774 for ; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:49:17 -0500 Received: from [98.172.154.66] (port=33405 helo=[10.200.100.14]) by scottsdale.servershost.net with esmtpsa (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JArbZ-0007zK-0o; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:49:17 -0600 To: Stanislav Malyshev Cc: Robert Cummings , internals Mailing List In-Reply-To: <477E7C88.1070902@zend.com> References: <477DB7BF.10201@chiaraquartet.net> <20080104105558.GC7861@mint.phcomp.co.uk> <477E5649.2080104@chiaraquartet.net> <1463438959.20080104182050@marcus-boerger.de> <1199468241.6629.53.camel@blobule> <1199468484.15292.156.camel@sbarrow-desktop> <1199468908.6629.58.camel@blobule> <1199469097.15292.162.camel@sbarrow-desktop> <1199469734.6629.73.camel@blobule> <477E7C88.1070902@zend.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:47:43 -0500 Message-ID: <1199472463.15292.183.camel@sbarrow-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - scottsdale.servershost.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.php.net X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - sambarrow.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] type hinting From: sam@sambarrow.com (Sam Barrow) On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 10:35 -0800, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > It's funny sometimes the complaints about too complicated. I mean, if > > people don't want to use a "complicated feature" then they shouldn't. I > > Not an argument. > > > don't think cutting the legs out from developers who want to use said > > features is the solution. I mean we're all programmers around here... is > > Omitting feature that wasn't in PHP for 10 years and all developers were > OK with it is not "cutting legs out". Well PHP is changing into an enterprise-level language now. Out with the old, in with the new. And I'm sure there were some developers who did want this feature but didn't necessarily say anything. > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect > stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ > (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com >