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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 07:05:39 +0700
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To: Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntactical change to Scalar Type Hints RFC
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/02/2015 20:33, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, while I think strict types - stricter than even strict languages -
>> don't belong in PHP, this syntax is clearly a step up from declare(),
>> which
>> was definitely not intended for this purpose.
>
>
> I'm kind of intrigued what purpose it *was* intended for. I've always found
> it a rather odd part of the language, but this seems as logical a use for it
> as any.
>
> For years, it had exactly one "execution directive", which worked in concert
> with a runtime event handler (ticks=N + register_tick_function). In PHP 5.3,
> a completely unrelated directive was added, to specify the encoding of the
> file (something that more obviously has to be detected by the compiler).
>
> Was there an original idea of what it would be used for that never came to
> fruition? Or is there something I'm missing that connects "ticks" and
> "encoding", but excludes "strict_types"?

Both are being done at compile time and modify how a file is compiled.
So no, I do not agree with "runtime" here, while one directive is
being used at runtime.

-- 
Pierre

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