Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:53941 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14658 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2011 19:23:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Jul 2011 19:23:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.218.42 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.218.42 mail-yi0-f42.google.com Received: from [209.85.218.42] ([209.85.218.42:33884] helo=mail-yi0-f42.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FE/A0-10669-8A0FD1E4 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:23:21 -0400 Received: by yih10 with SMTP id 10so2902452yih.29 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:23:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Fw1p4JZhvsDHv3zVb7VH0ao7kYRow6FoKllgMu5Wsmw=; b=b39KrGWUtmyFsaJbHJPuQ3sFwJw7DZuCnpvCgjewk0vaEsA9DgkHi+Wc0HJA2ZkTQn x2idyU0Y/NGajsHWhaMjniCQcfmcPnkps/2s4GyqdoGh8wFd6cVvHr67CsNM4lXRqcVH ao5soM8mack130uLDQcDYd746iCjQnu88ql+A= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.77.42 with SMTP id c30mr1918943yhe.248.1310584998231; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:23:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.147.137.11 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:23:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E1DEFB0.1010208@lerdorf.com> References: <4E1DDBB4.3070301@php.net> <4E1DE5A8.90505@lerdorf.com> <4E1DEFB0.1010208@lerdorf.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:23:18 +0200 Message-ID: To: Rasmus Lerdorf Cc: internals@lists.php.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Make primitive type names reserved words (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] 5.4 features for vote (long)) From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye) On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > On 07/13/2011 11:50 AM, Pierre Joye wrote: >> Are you saying that widely approved thing are pointless or we could >> have foreseen the results for each of them? Better to have a vote and >> got a massive support than nothing and sit in the middle of nowhere >> forever. > > I'm saying that many of these in the past were handled by a, "Hey guys, > any objections to adding E_STRICT to E_ALL in 5.4?" email which would > get a couple of, "go for it" replies and no objections, followed by the > change being committed. To me the voting is only needed when we have > trouble reaching a quick consensus and not for every little thing. Yes, got it, they were rhetorical questions :). However doing it this way spares us time in the long run. While one or another proposal could get large and immediate adoption, it makes the whole thing clearer for the developers not following internals@ daily or to our users. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org