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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 02:06:53 +0300
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To: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Basic Scalar Types
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)

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On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Bob Weinand <bobwei9@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > after all, some people are not happy with the current proposals about
> > scalar types. So, they both still possibly may fail.
> >
> > Thus, I'd like to come up with a fallback proposal in case both proposals
> > fail:
> >
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/basic_scalar_types
> >
> > It shouldn't prevent any future improvements and still give use all the
> > advantages of scalar types.
> >
>
> Before I even start thinking about this, I'd like to have clarification as
> to whether this RFC is still eligible for targeting the PHP 7.0 release.
> The currently accepted interpretation is that all RFC votes must have
> started by March 15th, which is irreconcilable with an RFC that was only
> submitted today.
>
> Does this mean that we're delaying the PHP 7 schedule by two weeks?
>
> I feel like this topic is getting out of control. It's been discussed for
> months, now we had one vote on Andrea's withdrawn proposal, then another
> vote on Anthony's proposal, then another vote on the Zeev et al proposal -
> and then we're going to have another one on Bob's proposal? With every vote
> taking another couple of weeks. Hey, maybe I should also submit a STH
> proposal that we can vote on after that?
>
> If both Anthony's and Zeev's proposal fail, I would recommend to just drop
> this topic for 7.0 and discuss it again for PHP 7.1. The necessary
> forward-compatibility changes to allow that are already proposed in another
> RFC.
>

Bob proposes the base common part of both other RFCs.
It actually had to be proposed in first place.
I would prefer this instead of nothing. I think many people think the same.

Thanks. Dmitry.


>
> Nikita
>

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