Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:44646 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 32966 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2009 13:04:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Jul 2009 13:04:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=mls@pooteeweet.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=mls@pooteeweet.org; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain pooteeweet.org from 88.198.8.16 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mls@pooteeweet.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 88.198.8.16 bigtime.backendmedia.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [88.198.8.16] ([88.198.8.16:55169] helo=bigtime.backendmedia.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 84/93-16153-B60BC4A4 for ; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:04:44 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by bigtime.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D76EE1EBC01A; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:05:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at backendmedia.com Received: from bigtime.backendmedia.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bigtime.backendmedia.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id hab44+1FCV4c; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:05:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.80.162] (unknown [195.226.16.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mls@pooteeweet.org) by bigtime.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442561EBC014; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:05:22 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Paul Biggar , PHP Internals , Derick Rethans , Stanislav Malyshev , Hannes Magnusson Message-ID: <67163A6A-9C8F-4F59-82A4-0B46A2EBEAE9@pooteeweet.org> To: Ilia Alshanetsky In-Reply-To: <89868409-EBAC-47DE-8D6D-0DCD88DE9DE6@ilia.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:04:38 +0200 References: <85073B28-671D-4A8F-B2D6-5704E3E180BB@ilia.ws> <89868409-EBAC-47DE-8D6D-0DCD88DE9DE6@ilia.ws> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Flexible type hinting From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith) On 02.07.2009, at 15:02, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > Personally, I am uncertain about +int or -int in general, IMO that > compromise will eventually be identical to numeric an cause endless > confusion for the users between (+/-)int and int. The reason I used > a completely different name is to prevent confusion. I do not see the risk for confusion as being high. Like I said, I havent made up my mind on this proposal, however for now Paul mainly asked for feedback in the general concept, not necessarily on the syntax. regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org