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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hints v0.2
From: j.boggiano@seld.be (Jordi Boggiano)

On 15/01/2015 15:30, Benjamin Eberlei wrote:
>     The potential issues with this are pretty real, to be honest. Simple
>     things like moving a method from one class to another (let's say to
>     parent or descendant) and getting to another typing context may cause
>     unpredictable behavior if the user forgets to have declare() in both
>     files.
>
>
> This alone is a very big argument against it imho. Next argument
> would be using different libraries in one file and wanting one of them
> to be strict the other not.

If you want both you can just use the non-strict default and do type 
checks yourself where you see fit.

If you had strict typing only or weak only you anyway could not choose 
which library should be strict, each library would decide for you.

Cheers

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Jordi Boggiano
@seldaek - http://nelm.io/jordi