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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:12:22 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE][RFC] Scalar Type Hinting with Cast
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi Andrea,

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> I=E2=80=99ve given up on my plan B, so I=E2=80=99m putting this RFC, fina=
lly, to a vote.
>
> I would urge you to vote in favour. It is not going to please everyone, i=
t is after all a compromise proposal. However, I have tried my best to stri=
ke a balance between complete weak typing and strict typing. If this passes=
, we will finally have userland type specifiers for scalar types. It=E2=80=
=99s not perfect, but I=E2=80=99d argue it=E2=80=99s far better than nothin=
g.
>
> Voting starts today, 2014-09-14, and ends in a week=E2=80=99s time, 2014-=
09-21.

Great job!

It brings also some clarity and sense to type casting, at least for this ar=
ea.

I do not see much of a problem with the small delta with existing
casting. I am not sure about the recoverable error, especially when
old codes will use new implementations, it may have a bad impact
depending on how the errors are a managed in a given library. But
there is no BC per se in existing codes due to this.

All in all, I will vote +1. No matter what we think what PHP should
do, remain or be, this addition has been a long due request from the
waste majority of our users. Let see what they think about it.
Hopefully some lead devs of the major tools/libs/frameworks will post
their views here.

Cheers.
--=20
Pierre

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