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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hints v0.2
From: olemarkus@olemarkus.org (Ole Markus With)



On 01/14/2015 02:35 PM, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> I don’t think we’re ever going to get consensus.  But judging by the
> feedback to the v0.1 version, I tend to disagree that the opposers would
> have blocked it.  There were certainly opposers – but not that many of them
> as far as I could tell.  I think it stood a good chance to pass at a 2/3.
> Unlike strict typing – we didn’t even go to a vote on it, which I think is
> unfortunate (and should be changed, before changing course completely as
> this v0.2 suggests).
> 

Hi guys,

I completely agree. I would have gone through with voting on v0.1 first.
Then later (maybe) propose v0.2 as an improvement.

For me v0.1 is better than no hinting, and no hinting is better than v0.2.

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Ole Markus