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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 5 February 2015 23:22:26 GMT, Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> wrote:

>having such a declare(…) syntax will be ridiculed by the broader app
>dev community until the end of time… 

I think that's laying it on a bit thick. It's no worse than Python's "from __future__ import", or JS's 'use strict;' (quotes included).

I wish unknown declare directives were ignored, though, because it would make for a great forward-compatibility mechanism. Still, that, like the syntax format, is a decision made many years ago.