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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 18:35:02 -0500
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To: Simon Schick <simonsimcity@googlemail.com>
Cc: Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com>, Raymond Irving <xwisdom@gmail.com>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Scalar Type Hinting
From: ircmaxell@gmail.com (Anthony Ferrara)

My concern is the total lack of talk on-list about it.  It's obviously
not perfect, but there has been little to no talk on-list about it.
That is an indication to me that it's not ready or that it won't get
in if put to a vote...

Thoughts?

Anthony

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Simon Schick
<simonsimcity@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It got quite around that because we have some RFCs to this where the
> functionality seems to be defined as the people thought it should be.
> Otherwise they can raise their hands and write a mail that they want to
> update the RFC - but as there's no one doing that, I think we're quite
> close to what we wanted.
>
> Take a look at it and feel free to add your ideas in this thread.
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/parameter_type_casting_hints
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/object_cast_to_types
>
> Bye
> Simon
>
> 2012/3/6 Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com>
>
>> Wow no offense, but your timing is terrible, Raymond! =A0We've been goin=
g
>> back and forth on this for the past couple weeks now, though the discuss=
ion
>> has quieted for the moment.
>>
>> I would suggest you go through some of the recent posts on Internals.
>> Right now there basically is no solid consensus on this issue, though so=
me
>> of us have been working to change that. =A0But as it stands now, I'm not
>> aware of any plans to introduce expanded typing of any kind in the
>> foreseeable future. =A0And even if we did, I highly doubt it would happe=
n
>> before PHP 6.
>>
>> --Kris
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Raymond Irving <xwisdom@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I came across some info on the web that states that scalar type hintin=
g
>> was
>> > added to the PHP trunk but it did not make it's way into 5.4 because o=
f
>> > objections from the community. Will it ever make it's way into 5.5?
>> >
>> > I know PHP is considered to be a weak typed language but it should als=
o
>> be
>> > about freedom. Freedom for a PHP developer to choose to use scalar typ=
e
>> > hinting whenever he/she sees the need.
>> >
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > __
>> > Raymond
>> >
>>