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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:42:32 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting - Request for Discussion
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

I'm still in favour of #2 (Ilia's patch) as I don't see a real benefit
of a weak typing implementation, it defeats the main goal of this
addition. I'm also still opposed to add such thing in 5.3.x.

Cheers,

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Zeev Suraski<zeev@zend.com> wrote:

> 2. =A0Move forward with the semantics of the current patch. =A0This appro=
ach has
> substantial drawbacks in my opinion, and is a strong misfit with the rest=
 of
> PHP (again, in my opinion). =A0See previous posts from Stas, Rasmus, myse=
lf
> and maybe others illustrating this point. =A0Lukas's 'Strict and Weak Typ=
ing
> RFC' (http://wiki.php.net/rfc/typecheckingstrictandweak) has some good
> insight as to why strict typing is problematic in PHP.


--=20
Pierre

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