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Cc: Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net>,
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On 1 Mar 2014, at 15:20, Philip Sturgeon <pjsturgeon@gmail.com> wrote:

> It also lines up nicely with the syntax everyone is using for
> DocBlocks, so again, why not have it now and have some other syntax
> for a slightly more powerful feature in the future maybe.


Or, we could have generics-like syntax now and add proper generics =
later, meaning people would get a free performance boost eventually and =
we=92d be able to eliminate the O(n) issue.

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