Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:44796 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 52165 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2009 21:17:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jul 2009 21:17:44 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 87.118.104.77 ns.experimentalworks.net Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:55:05 -0400 Received: from [87.118.104.77] ([87.118.104.77:17278] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CB/B1-37453-926B35A4 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:55:05 -0400 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <2D0F5226-EBCA-4B45-BF01-8ED1C643976C@prohost.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) X-Posted-By: 87.118.104.77 Subject: Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote From: sn_@gmx.net (David Soria Parra) -1 for 5.3.x . We should not add major language features at that stage. On 2009-07-07, 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. > > Ilia