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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting/casting request for vote
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

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 on 5.3.  The window for adding new major features to 5.3 is obviously
long gone.  Not sure why you are even suggesting it.

+0 on parts of it for the next major release.  You still haven't
convinced me that strict type checking won't cause more problems than it
will solve, but I do see the benefits.

-Rasmus