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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] The Game Theory of Scalar Type Hint Voting
From: dennis@birkholz.biz (Dennis Birkholz)

Hi Lester,

Am 25.02.2015 um 12:48 schrieb 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)

that is perfectly fine, I just hope that you will not do two competing
votes that both need 2/3+1 majority. Then both will fail and we (again)
have no scalar type hints at all!

Thanks
Dennis