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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote
From: greg@chiaraquartet.net (Greg Beaver)

Stan Vassilev wrote:
>> +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.

Hi,

To clarify, my vote was for 6.0.0, I did not catch the "put in 5.3" part
of Ilia's original email.

Greg