Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:83772 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 11007 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2015 11:48:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Feb 2015 11:48:50 -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] ([217.147.176.214:43544] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 99/D9-62407-F96BDE45 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 06:48:48 -0500 Received: (qmail 20410 invoked by uid 89); 25 Feb 2015 11:48:44 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 20401, pid: 20406, t: 0.0732s 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; 25 Feb 2015 11:48:44 -0000 Message-ID: <54EDB69C.6020401@lsces.co.uk> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:48:44 +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: <0aa4f2f9eedf3c66af3463d42a9d4645@mail.gmail.com> <54EDB0BA.9060802@birkholz.biz> In-Reply-To: <54EDB0BA.9060802@birkholz.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] The Game Theory of Scalar Type Hint Voting From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 25/02/15 11:23, Dennis Birkholz wrote: > Or you could create a three-way vote, both proposals together need 2/3 > majority over no-votes and the proposals that gets more than the other > is chosen. Even that simplifies things perhaps a little too much? The questions as I see them are ... Scalar Type Hinting - yes/no Type of hinting - weak/strict/other If only weak hinting accepted, option to add strict anyway - yes/no Changes to casting rules are a separate discussion? Change casting - yes/no/partial (selected tidy-up) -- 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