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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV][VOTE] "Array Of" v Generics
From: larry@garfieldtech.com (Larry Garfield)

On 1/23/14 9:20 PM, Philip Sturgeon wrote:

> Can you lot vote A, B, C or D to show your interest?
>
> A) I want Array Of, but not Generics
> B) I want Generics, but not Array Of
> C) I want both
> D) I want neither
>
> Nothing really binding here, its more of a survey than a vote, but it
> should help with the next steps.


Long-term, I think we do need some form of "abstracted collection" 
that's more capable than arrays, so I will say C.  Whether that's 
generics as we've been discussing them or not I'm not sure yet.

To reiterate for everyone else: This is not an RFC vote!  It's a survey. 
  We've done a number of these "pre-vote informal survey" posts in the 
Framework Interoperability Group, and they've proven extremely valuable 
for determining if we have "rough consensus and working code" on a given 
topic.

It's very very easy for one or two people to make it look like there's 
no agreement whatsoever on a discussion thread, but when you reduce it 
to "soft preferences" and get a poll with a broader cross-section of 
people a very clear close-consensus often comes out of it.  That can 
help move the discussion forward with less debate and more hard data, 
which is a good thing.

--Larry Garfield