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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting/casting request for vote
From: andrei@gravitonic.com (Andrei Zmievski)

Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> Last week or so there was a fairly detailed discussion on the internals 
> list regarding type hinting based on my original patch. Since then the 
> patch has been revised to address the major concerns that were 
> identified (breakage of binary compatibility) as well extended with 
> additional functionality (object hint, type casting, reflection support, 
> etc...).
> 
> The final patch is available here: http://ilia.ws/patch/type_hint_53_v2.txt
> The test suit is available here: http://ia.gd/patch/type_hint_tests.tar.bz2
> 
> 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.

+1.

-a