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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Reviving scalar type hints
From: bensor987@neuf.fr ("Benoit Schildknecht")

Le Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:58:18 +0100, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> a =C3=
=A9crit:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Fran=C3=A7ois Laupretre <francois@php=
.net>  =

> wrote:
>> Once again, anyone can take over version 0.3, if it is so great. Why =
 =

>> don't you do it ?
>> I will play the game, stop working on my proposal, and vote 'yes' aga=
in.
>> But don't ask me to do it in your place.
>>
> If nobody else does it, I will.
>
> I think Andrea's 0.3 proposal was extremely well balanced, served
> everyone's needs whether they would admit it or not, and who's only
> failing (subjectively termed) was the use of declare().  I think
> declare() is fine and not nearly as ugly as some have slandered it to
> be, but I'm willing to read the winds and modify it for v0.4.
>
> Straw poll:
> 1) <?php strict;
> 2) <?php-strict
> 3) use strict; (psuedo-namespace)
> 3) <?php // strict (I don't actually like HHVM's style, but if you do.=
..)
> 4) declare(strict=3Dtrue); (As a top-level declare only)
> 5) declare(strict=3Dtrue); (exactly as in v0.3 -- maybe you liked it)
> 6) your write-in vote here
>
> I'm not going to scope in union types, nullables, or falsables.  We
> can leave that for a followup RFC, this one is contentious enough as
> it is.
>
> -Sara

I like 2) No possible confusion, and it's a clear tag.

But implementing 3) would be a good thing, since it is Hack syntax. Even=
  =

if I don't like to use comments to enable something.

If we have 2 similar features between PHP and Hack, I think it should ha=
ve  =

the same syntax, so there are minimum BC from one language to another, a=
nd  =

people would spend less time to remember which syntax is the right synta=
x  =

for PHP or Hack.