Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:44768 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 70354 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2009 14:53:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jul 2009 14:53:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=paul.biggar@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=paul.biggar@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.220.224 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: paul.biggar@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.220.224 mail-fx0-f224.google.com Received: from [209.85.220.224] ([209.85.220.224:54856] helo=mail-fx0-f224.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CD/EA-17523-F71635A4 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:53:53 -0400 Received: by fxm24 with SMTP id 24so4981983fxm.23 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:53:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=o4FO/XbEZ2tyiQ8DSfeXJDsiyKx+4CA/KdH5J2pbvDA=; b=YL+L6rWGifHxyzF+Yz9C8X0+xMf2lsSDgKGPpQDpkeW/ySatPId3klWBErnRpigqcQ 7QwflsWyv86HygeE+uBdRNHXSLKDn/Zj7c9Ux0Imlnph9yOGFImEghI6HemDpjJ9Ju9C IVAmrSpN1jySrMA57pA6qxlZtcI7e1gXpaaRk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=iLA1vmCpM1QUS0wpV0WMLBHlb+x+bJ6cl/4c5AhEMBlQobwyECZLJs8QVXcxrDNEk4 10EAFRw2AjdJj2hoWMJ1e1E6zXpxZCjRf/FXU12nlj1CV92yZkqo422mHfCZVdTC65oY g3bJ6NQtCuVkKQuE/yrcmSCJX2OqyRt8ZADsI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.53.136 with SMTP id m8mr5874335bkg.109.1246978428102; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:53:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <2D0F5226-EBCA-4B45-BF01-8ED1C643976C@prohost.org> <4A535468.2000606@chiaraquartet.net> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:53:28 +0100 Message-ID: To: Stan Vassilev Cc: Greg Beaver , Ilia Alshanetsky , PHP internals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote From: paul.biggar@gmail.com (Paul Biggar) On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Stan Vassilev wrote: > 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. Because nearly everyone wants it, and people think it might actually get in this time. It was never rejected, people simply couldnt agree on what it was they wanted, so it never got in. Nearly there, though... Paul -- Paul Biggar paul.biggar@gmail.com