Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:77189 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 32563 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2014 17:25:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Sep 2014 17:25:33 -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 192.64.116.216 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.216 imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.216] ([192.64.116.216:50844] helo=imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 7E/BB-53483-C8FC5145 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:25:32 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FBAF2400D1; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:25:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap10.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap10.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 8tUJwu3KtKPg; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:25:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from oa-res-27-90.wireless.abdn.ac.uk (oa-res-27-90.wireless.abdn.ac.uk [137.50.27.90]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 19BA32400DE; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:25:27 -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: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 18:25:24 +0100 Cc: PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <7BA64CA7-8CEC-4AFA-B8D3-9C25AC36FC2A@ajf.me> References: <6893A97A-EC4C-4124-B804-96E2A26B953F@ajf.me> To: Dan Ackroyd X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE][RFC] Scalar Type Hinting with Cast From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 14 Sep 2014, at 18:23, Dan Ackroyd wrote: > When you re-open the voting, please can you have an option that is > 'Yes - without numeric typehint=92 ? I was already planning that, actually. :) > Although I like the idea of the RFC, having a type-hint that matches > multiple scalar types seems distinctly weird to me. >=20 > It really needs a separate case making for it, separate from the > 'should we have scalar type hints for the current types' question. Yeah. While me and Anthony thought it was a no-brainer, I=92ve since = seen some opposition to it, so I=92d have its own vote. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/