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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Enum proposal (yet another)
From: mabi@gentoo.org (Matti Bickel)

On 02/23/2012 11:49 PM, Kris Craig wrote:
[dynamic vs strict typing via config setting]
> Yeah I agree, that was one of the things I listed under "disadvantages" lol.
> 
> I guess my question is:  Does this constitute a prohibitive problem, or is
> it something that we can stomach?

As a user of PHP: this would be totally confusing. To be honest that
feels like asking Haskell to become procedural on the push of a button.
It's a switch of paradigma. If I wanted that, I'd choose another language.

Also: what the last RFC on type checking
(https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typechecking and the ml) said.