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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting/casting request for vote
From: jeffg@activestate.com (Jeff Griffiths)

On 07/07/09 10:17 AM, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Sorry, I should have read better. My +1 was for the feature in general,
> not for 5.3. I think we should concentrate most of the new feature
> development on 6.0, now that 5.3 is out to avoid having yet another
> "feature-filled" 5.x release.
>
> So, once again, completely against this going into 5.3.

+1 for what Andrei said ( to further muddy the waters ). Ilia, why 5.3 
or die? This feature should be in HEAD IMO.

Aside: I'm personally really excited at the possibilities of improving 
completion in Komodo for code that uses this feature.

Jeff