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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:31:49 +0000
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To: Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>
Cc: Albert Casademont Filella <albertcasademont@gmail.com>, PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] The Game Theory of Scalar Type Hint Voting
From: leight@gmail.com (Leigh)

On 25 February 2015 at 09:09, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
> Leigh,
>
> There isn't a weak-only proposal on the table.  There's the original one
> (dual mode) and the coercive one.  Both have both strict and dynamic
> elements in them.
> I think that what Anthony proposed about a week or so ago, of having both
> votes, and if both pass 2/3 - have another vote to choose between them
> (where a simple majority wins) - makes the most sense in this uncharted
> territory.
> I think that opening the votes at the same time is probably a good idea.

Ahoy,

I know there isn't a weak-only proposal. Albert had previously
suggested that a single proposal (the dual-mode one) should have a
3-way vote to pick default behaviour, instead of a simple yes/no on
the whole proposal. In the spirit of game theory, this feels like a
way to get people to vote for something they don't want (all votes for
strict by default actually count as a vote for weak by default, which
we know would take the majority).

If that's not what he was referring to here, then I apologise, my mistake.

Leigh.