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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting/casting request for vote
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

At 21:38 07/07/2009, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>-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.

Agreed 100%:

-1 on 5.3.  Such a major change simply does not belong in 5.3 as a 
last-minute addition.

+0 for revisiting for the next major release.  Will change to +1 if 
we focus on conversion only - with slightly stricter semantics than 
the ones for internal functions, but with very much the same theme - 
as per my email.

Zeev