Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:44818 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 55641 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2009 08:33:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Jul 2009 08:33:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.94.239.7 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.7 mail.jdi.nl Received: from [82.94.239.7] ([82.94.239.7:55092] helo=mail.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 87/28-10517-9D9545A4 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:33:30 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.jdi-ict.nl (8.13.7/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n688XLnK026832; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:33:21 +0200 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jdi-ict.nl Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.13.7/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n688WZGP026492; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:33:16 +0200 Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:32:35 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.ez.no To: Graham Kelly cc: Ilia Alshanetsky , Andrei Zmievski , Jeff Griffiths , PHP internals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <2D0F5226-EBCA-4B45-BF01-8ED1C643976C@prohost.org> <4A53825F.1080006@gravitonic.com> <4A53832E.6030105@gravitonic.com> <4A538775.3060305@activestate.com> <4A53B578.6040204@gravitonic.com> <46789C0F-A9A4-4B7C-92DF-A1F65471D069@prohost.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (jdi.jdi-ict.nl [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:33:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting/casting request for vote From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Graham Kelly wrote: > However, this is ONLY because I do not feel PHP 5.3 is the place to put > this. However, I do have to agree with Ilia here that PHP 6 is too far away > and it would be nice to have this feature long before then. I would however, > be very for adding something similar to this patch in a PHP 5.4 release. I > don't see why a PHP 5.4 release can't be done relativly quickly (Like 6-12 > months) by just making it more of a minor internal update but something that > could have large impacts on user code (syntax changes for type hints). With this logic, we got a PHP 5.3 as well, and with the same logic there will be a PHP 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 and we never get to 6. Instead of putting stuff in PHP 5.4 (which at the moment is *not* planned), why not focus all effort on 6 to make sure it comes out faster? And although this feature is useful, it's not something that I would *really-need-right-now*. regards, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org twitter: @derickr