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Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 22:33:26 +0200
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To: Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting
From: colder@php.net (Etienne Kneuss)

Hello,

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 17:04, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> As I mentioned numerous times scalar type hinting is a very controversial
> feature in my mind and requires some substantial discussion before we move
> ahead to implement it.
> As such, I think we should revert the patch that was committed to trunk and
> move to discuss it first instead.
>
> My (& Lukas') thoughts on the subject are detailed at
> <http://wiki.php.net/rfc/typecheckingstrictandweak>http://wiki.php.net/rfc/typecheckingstrictandweak
>
> As one of the key people who designed PHP's type system I consider strict
> type checks completely alien to and counterintuitive in PHP and am therefore
> pushing to implement 'weak' typing instead, in a way that's consistent and
> familiar to users.

-1, this table is very counter intuitive and is definitely not
consistent with the rest of PHP. Either make it strict or loose but
not halfway and in a bizarre way.

>
> Zeev
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