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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:35:30 +0200
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To: David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Make primitive type names reserved words (Was: Re:
 [PHP-DEV] [RFC] 5.4 features for vote (long))
From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com (Hannes Magnusson)

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 20:02, David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> wrote:
> On 2011-07-12, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> As of now I do not think we should allow this change, whether the RFC
>> is accepted or not does not matter as it will badly break BC. Unless
>> there is a patch allowing this change without affecting existing code
>> (main point being namespaced code working smoothly), this RFC should
>> be rejected.
>>
>> Cheers,
>
>
> I think this change has too much of an impact on backward compatibility.
> As long as we don't have a concrete implementation, I think we should
> let string, int not be reserved words. Argumentes were already presented.
>
> ps.: Pierre you might want to consider changing your vote in the wiki


This thread is an excellent example why attempting to reach consensus
by discussing things is important.
Voting should be considered as an desperate last resort, not the
primary mechanism.

http://producingoss.com/en/consensus-democracy.html has several very
related points.

-Hannes