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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC Proposal: New assign value operator
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)

On 27/11/13 09:36, Tom Oram wrote:
>
> Since writing the original message I've been looking at golang and found
> that they have a := operation to infer type which is very similar to what I
> proposed.
>
> I'd like to try and start some discussion about this again as I think it
> would be very useful and really open up the possibility of having objects
> for primitive types.
>

I'm not sure I understand the utility here. PHP has a dynamic typing 
system. The utility of := in languages like Go is that it allows you to 
avoid making a type declaration. But PHP does not have them anyway, so 
there it isn't useful in that case.

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