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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 20:09:49 +0900
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To: Patrick ALLAERT <patrickallaert@php.net>
Cc: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>, PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints
From: yohgaki@ohgaki.net (Yasuo Ohgaki)

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Hi all,

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Patrick ALLAERT <patrickallaert@php.net>
wrote:

> Voted "no" because of the reasons already mentioned by a bunch of others
> here.
>
> Weak type hint as presented earlier: +1 (and very good job Andrea about
> that!).
> declare(strict_types=1): -1, not only about the syntax, but also about the
> mixed mode it introduces.
>
> I'm pretty confident that this RFC will "pass" with just above 2/3 of
> majority while it could reach much more.
>
>  I am pretty sure that if this RFC doesn't include a strict type mode _the
> way it is proposed_ (or even, not at all, as part of another related RFC),
> it would have some "no" converted to "yes" and would have a wider adoption,
> which is for sure a better option than relying on a voting mechanism which
> still is a supporting tool, we're not politicians after all :)
>
> Andi's suggestion about an E_STRICT_TYPES sounds very reasonable and much
> more in line with how PHP deals with "errors". However, I think this should
> be discussed separately as this is really about the A + B think that Zeev
> was talking about.
>

For the same reason, I voted "no".

Regards,

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Yasuo Ohgaki
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