Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:53929 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 85688 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2011 16:51:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Jul 2011 16:51:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=philip@roshambo.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=philip@roshambo.org; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain roshambo.org from 209.85.214.170 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: philip@roshambo.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.214.170 mail-iw0-f170.google.com Received: from [209.85.214.170] ([209.85.214.170:50219] helo=mail-iw0-f170.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 21/B0-16314-DFCCD1E4 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:51:10 -0400 Received: by iwn36 with SMTP id 36so6370924iwn.29 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:51:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.1.12 with SMTP id 12mr1283112ice.366.1310575866273; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:51:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (c-174-61-179-13.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [174.61.179.13]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a5sm1989076icb.3.2011.07.13.09.51.05 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:51:03 -0700 Cc: David Soria Parra , internals@lists.php.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <1D6D3852-2EE8-4959-BCA5-85E0E8559E72@roshambo.org> References: To: Hannes Magnusson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Make primitive type names reserved words (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] 5.4 features for vote (long)) From: philip@roshambo.org (Philip Olson) On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Hannes Magnusson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 20:02, David Soria Parra wrote: >> On 2011-07-12, Pierre Joye wrote: >>> hi, >>>=20 >>> 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. >>>=20 >>> Cheers, >>=20 >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> ps.: Pierre you might want to consider changing your vote in the wiki >=20 >=20 > 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. >=20 > http://producingoss.com/en/consensus-democracy.html has several very > related points. And each topic deserves its own thread, whereas this [original] thread = lumped 10 separate topics together. Regards, Philip=