Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:44759 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 52275 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2009 14:16:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jul 2009 14:16:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=sv_forums@fmethod.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=sv_forums@fmethod.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain fmethod.com from 69.16.228.148 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: sv_forums@fmethod.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 69.16.228.148 unknown Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from [69.16.228.148] ([69.16.228.148:46195] helo=host.fmethod.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 20/17-17523-8A8535A4 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:16:09 -0400 Received: from [83.228.56.37] (port=3861 helo=pc) by host.fmethod.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MOBSm-00053M-7m; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:16:04 -0500 Message-ID: To: "Greg Beaver" , "Ilia Alshanetsky" Cc: "PHP internals" References: <2D0F5226-EBCA-4B45-BF01-8ED1C643976C@prohost.org> <4A535468.2000606@chiaraquartet.net> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 17:15:54 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.fmethod.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.php.net X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - fmethod.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote From: sv_forums@fmethod.com ("Stan Vassilev") > +1 if the object type hint is change to use T_CLASS so we don't break > every external package using "Object" as a base class. > > http://www.google.com/codesearch?as_q=class\s%2Bobject&btnG=Search+Code&hl=en&as_lang=php&as_license_restrict=i&as_license=&as_package=&as_filename=&as_case= > > Greg Or this can wait until 6.0, when (as I hear) we'll have case-sensitive class names, so Object/object, Int/int won't cause collisions. I'm really puzzled why a non-essential, and for the past months (years?) controversial and always rejected feature such as strict type hints, has everyone turning 180 degrees and putting it in a minor release in the course of a week. Regards, Stan Vassilev