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Subject: OT Godwin's law, was Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting/casting request for
 vote
From: jeffg@activestate.com (Jeff Griffiths)

Aside: I'd like to propose an internals-specific mutation of Godwin's 
law, which might state:

"As a PHP internals discussion thread grows longer, the probability of a 
comparison involving Perl 6 approaches 1."

JG

On 07/07/09 6:14 PM, Wez Furlong wrote:
> -1 for 5.x
> +1 for 6.0
>
> Otherwise the Perl 6 guys will starting making their own jokes about
> being released before PHP 6.
>
> --Wez.
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Ilia Alshanetsky<ilia@prohost.org>  wrote:
>> 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.
>


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