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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:59:43 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting - Request for Discussion
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 09.07.2009, at 13:10, Patrick ALLAERT wrote:

> 2009/7/9 Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>:
>> Two other issues that we need to revisit:
>> 1.  Agree on when it will be implemented - I think it's pretty  
>> clear it
>> should not go to 5.3.
>
> What would be the impact including this feature (once it is
> *technically* fine for everybody) in 5.3 code with #ifdef's so that
> this feature is enabled only at ./configure time and disabled by
> default.
>
> We could then imagine to switch this configure parameter as enabled by
> default in a future (major) release.
>
> This way, every vanilla PHP installation wouldn't suffer of BC
> problems while still providing the feature to a restricted set of
> users.


thats a no go, since this would lead to incompatible PHP code. we have  
had various php.ini settings that have caused this and we do not want  
to pile onto this.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org