Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:44815 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38666 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2009 06:45:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Jul 2009 06:45:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=christian.stocker@liip.ch; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=christian.stocker@liip.ch; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain liip.ch from 194.50.176.162 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: christian.stocker@liip.ch X-Host-Fingerprint: 194.50.176.162 mail.bitflux.ch Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [194.50.176.162] ([194.50.176.162:43752] helo=devel.bitflux.ch) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 32/E4-10517-2A0445A4 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:45:55 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by devel.bitflux.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id A061DE76EB; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:45:51 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at devel.bitflux.ch Received: from devel.bitflux.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (devel.bitflux.ch [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Pafsue9wvVYx; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:45:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pr-2.local (unknown [195.226.16.50]) by devel.bitflux.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D95E76E5; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:45:43 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A544097.9020909@liip.ch> Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:45:43 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ilia Alshanetsky CC: PHP internals References: <2D0F5226-EBCA-4B45-BF01-8ED1C643976C@prohost.org> In-Reply-To: <2D0F5226-EBCA-4B45-BF01-8ED1C643976C@prohost.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=5CE1DECB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting/casting request for vote From: christian.stocker@liip.ch (Christian Stocker) -1 for 5.3 0 for 5.x (if there ever will be one) +1 for 6.0 On 7.7.2009 2:52 Uhr, 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 > -- Liip AG // Feldstrasse 133 // CH-8004 Zurich Tel +41 43 500 39 81 // Mobile +41 76 561 88 60 www.liip.ch // blog.liip.ch // GnuPG 0x5CE1DECB