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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 15:58:30 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

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OK. But maybe that's why PHP is better than those languages :)

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 5 February 2015 23:22:26 GMT, Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> wrote:
>
> >having such a declare(=E2=80=A6) syntax will be ridiculed by the broader=
 app
> >dev community until the end of time=E2=80=A6
>
> I think that's laying it on a bit thick. It's no worse than Python's "fro=
m
> __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.
>
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