Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:44770 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 73296 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2009 14:59:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jul 2009 14:59:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=mls@pooteeweet.org; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=mls@pooteeweet.org; spf=permerror; 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] ([88.198.8.16:60240] helo=bigtime.backendmedia.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 33/AB-17523-4E2635A4 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:59:48 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by bigtime.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DB001EBC01B; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:00:55 +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 oUjfeC49+Bvc; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 17:00:53 +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 BCA861EBC015; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 17:00:51 +0200 (CEST) To: "Stan Vassilev" In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 References: <2D0F5226-EBCA-4B45-BF01-8ED1C643976C@prohost.org> <4A535468.2000606@chiaraquartet.net> Message-ID: 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 16:59:40 +0200 Cc: "Greg Beaver" , "Ilia Alshanetsky" , "PHP internals" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith) On 07.07.2009, at 16:15, 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. amen to that. regards Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org