Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75493 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 39346 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2014 17:14:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jul 2014 17:14:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.207 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.207 imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.207] ([192.64.116.207:49644] helo=imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id D6/1A-25444-7DF04C35 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:13:59 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB8D8C0080; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:13:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap2.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id KgJG5WsOmTI9; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:13:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.15] (unknown [90.210.122.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1B6158C007B; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:13:54 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: <20140714171140.GF27743@phcomp.co.uk> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 18:13:51 +0100 Cc: internals@lists.php.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: <08503591-EFC8-48E6-984E-FFC292C5EA5F@ajf.me> <53C3F70A.7010706@gmail.com> <3aa29e080d70c843713e19a952dfbad6@mail.gmail.com> <53C401CC.6010107@gmail.com> <20140714171140.GF27743@phcomp.co.uk> To: Alain Williams X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening) From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 14 Jul 2014, at 18:11, Alain Williams wrote: > Since we are looking at doing this what good reason is there for not = adopting > the syntax & some of the semantics of Hack ? >=20 > http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.annotations.php >=20 > NIH is not a good reason. >=20 > NIH =3D Not Invented Here We are using hack=92s syntax (int, float, bool, string, no = integer/double/boolean aliases). We are not using Hack=92s semantics for = reasons that have been discussed endlessly before in this thread and = others, reasons which are not NIH. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/