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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 10:55:37 +0200
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
Cc: Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com>, PHP Internals List <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hints v0.2
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
>> On 2 Feb 2015, at 07:02, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote:
>>
>> As I already told, in my opinion, version 0.1 was the perfect solution that
>> fit into PHP semantic very well.
>
> I don't like the original. Weak types work to a degree, but they don't fulfill the use case of a lot of developers, and consequently the RFC wasn't too popular outside internals.
>

I still think that caller-controlled "strict mode" doesn't fulfill
that use case either.

Cheers,
Andrey.