Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:44766 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 66459 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2009 14:44:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jul 2009 14:44:39 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=philip@roshambo.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=philip@roshambo.org; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain roshambo.org from 209.85.198.239 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: philip@roshambo.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.198.239 rv-out-0506.google.com Received: from [209.85.198.239] ([209.85.198.239:61217] helo=rv-out-0506.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id AE/1A-17523-65F535A4 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:44:39 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l9so1555078rvb.23 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.141.21 with SMTP id o21mr3657907rvd.92.1246977875419; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.2? (c-76-22-32-17.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [76.22.32.17]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f21sm5069122rvb.56.2009.07.07.07.44.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:44:34 -0700 (PDT) Cc: PHP internals Message-ID: <13C541C9-194D-4E3B-940E-00A110322CB5@roshambo.org> To: Ilia Alshanetsky In-Reply-To: <2D0F5226-EBCA-4B45-BF01-8ED1C643976C@prohost.org> 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: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 07:44:32 -0700 References: <2D0F5226-EBCA-4B45-BF01-8ED1C643976C@prohost.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting/casting request for vote From: philip@roshambo.org (Philip Olson) > I would like to ask all developers to voice their opinions of > whether it makes sense to add this to 5.3 or to throw it away > (either one is fine btw). To keep the process simple & flamewar > free, please restrict yourself to +/- (1/0), next week monday I'll > run a tally of the votes and based on the result we can determine > how to proceed further. I'm struggling here but must emit -1 because PHP does not add features within point (5.3.x) releases, especially those affecting syntax like this. But if this philosophy changes, then also add traits. :) Regards, Philip