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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:30:57 +0200
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To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>, PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:rasmus@lerdorf.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 8:37 AM
> To: Xinchen Hui; Andrea Faulds
> Cc: PHP Internals
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints
>
> On 02/10/2015 07:57 PM, Xinchen Hui wrote:
> >> am I wrong?!
> > seems I am wrong with this, it's a false alarm...  it can restore
> automatically.
>
> Yeah, declare() doesn't span files so that isn't a problem.
>
> My worry is still the lack of type coercion for internal calls.

There's also some pretty interesting analysis on this proposal - based on
some real world experimentation - from Benjamin Eberlei - bit.ly/1vl0UED

If you've voted on this RFC or intend to vote - please spend the few minutes
to read through his blog post.  It does a good job at actually illustrating
what life would look like if this rubber ends up meeting the road.

Zeev