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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:21:45 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Reserving More Types in PHP 7
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:01 AM, Fran=C3=A7ois Laupretre <francois@php.net>=
 wrote:
> Hi Levi,
>
> Just my opinion :
>
> Add 'resource', 'object', 'scalar', 'mixed', 'numeric'
>
> Remove 'double' (avoid this alias if we decide to encourage 'float' every=
where)
>
> Not sure we'll use Boolean and integer but reserve also.
>
> Hope 'null', 'true', and 'false' can technically be used as type hints. I=
f not, bad news, especially for null. Love 'int|false' as return type !
>

I'd rather not reserve 'resource'. Such a hint may be useful in the
short term, but there already are plans to turn the current resources
into objects, and with the rise of REST lately it is also an obvious
base class/interface/trait name.

Agree on 'double' though ... if we want to discourage its usage, we
might even think of deprecating it.

Cheers,
Andrey.