Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76655 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 62141 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2014 14:14:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Aug 2014 14:14:35 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.200 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.200 imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.200] ([192.64.116.200:46588] helo=imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id BF/11-54989-94A02F35 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:14:35 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8E3CB0008A; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:14:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap1.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap1.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id bm89mKoOlt7e; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:14:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (05439dda.skybroadband.com [5.67.157.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6967DB00085; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:14:26 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:14:24 +0100 Cc: Levi Morrison , Joe Watkins , ircmaxell@php.net, Nikita Popov , Xinchen Hui , PHP Internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: To: Dmitry Stogov X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: Optional Type Hinting From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 18 Aug 2014, at 15:11, Dmitry Stogov wrote: > What do you think about merging the following proposals into a single = and consistent one: >=20 > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hinting_with_cast > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/returntypehinting > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/nullable_typehints No, please let=92s not merge them. First off, the scalar hints proposal = is basically dead, I=92ll have a replacement at some point, but I have = actually abandoned it. Secondly, merging these together might be the death of all the RFCs. = While one might be uncontroversial on its own, bundling it together with = other changes might make it unpassable. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/