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Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:42:39 +0200
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Subject: Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote
From: svanpoeck@gmail.com (Steven Van Poeck)

Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">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
> </div>
-1 for PHP 5.3
0 for type casting
+1 for type enforcing a la "function a(int $param)"

Steven