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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Types on the right or on the left
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stas Malyshev)

Hi!

> PHP doesn’t need more inconsistency, sure, but we must be practical
> here. It is bad if PHP and Hack have the same feature with different
> syntax, it will cause developer confusion and further segment the
> communities.

Given that Hack is a different language, which was designed AFAIK with
little input from PHP community, I don't see how there would be any
confusion - it's like saying PHP and Perl or PHP and Java having
different syntaxes leads to segmenting the communities. In fact, there
are two different communities - though, of course, people can belong to
both - and two different languages. I do not think Hack syntax should
have much weight in decisions about what syntax to choose in PHP - it's
a different language, even though it has many similarities.