Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:82499 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 87400 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2015 22:41:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Feb 2015 22:41:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 217.147.176.214 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.147.176.214 mail4-2.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [217.147.176.214] ([217.147.176.214:54135] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 64/63-02515-59ADBD45 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:41:26 -0500 Received: (qmail 21207 invoked by uid 89); 11 Feb 2015 22:41:22 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 21200, pid: 21203, t: 0.0656s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.8?) (lester@rainbowdigitalmedia.org.uk@86.189.147.37) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 11 Feb 2015 22:41:22 -0000 Message-ID: <54DBDA91.5010508@lsces.co.uk> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 22:41:21 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <8703B53E-2C4A-4AC6-95C4-D4F19C6D5221@ajf.me> <54DAF884.7000508@lerdorf.com> <203e611c8e0b03568a868b8d931aec37@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 11/02/15 21:46, Andrea Faulds wrote: > Anthony Ferrara also had his own analysis which showed some of the problems with weak type hinting, and where strict types can be beneficial: http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2015/02/scalar-types-and-php.html What is the point of using a 'Better static analyzer' when the bulk of the material being worked with simply can't be processed 'statically'? The only result of this passing that I can see is that PHP will start to develop two completely different code bases. Anthony closes by saying that is EXACTLY what he will do ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk