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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 02:02:00 +0200
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi Andrea,

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:51 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
>> On 5 Feb 2015, at 23:41, Dan Ackroyd <danack@basereality.com> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Additionally Andrea, I am disappointed that you opened voting without
>> a option with the 'declare' stuff removed. This is despite myself
>> having asked you for an vote option for just strict types directly
>> several times. Other people have asked for a vote option that allows
>> strict and weak types with a different syntax.
>
> Yes, I realise you and others have asked for such things. I disagree with=
 you there and I don=E2=80=99t think adding strict types to PHP is really a=
 good idea. I=E2=80=99d prefer we have more rather than less consistency be=
tween userland and internals.
>
>> I realise that the RFC as it stands is your preferred option, but just
>> not accepting feedback during an RFC is not appropriate.
>
> I have listened to feedback. But listening to feedback and agreeing to an=
y and all suggestions are not the same thing.
>

It's fine that you disagree. But enabling others to disagree with you
via votes would've been more fair. With the available options, it's
either your way or no way.

Cheers,
Andrey.