Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:84770 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 34847 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2015 11:38:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Mar 2015 11:38:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=bobwei9@hotmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=bobwei9@hotmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain hotmail.com designates 65.55.111.86 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: bobwei9@hotmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 65.55.111.86 blu004-omc2s11.hotmail.com Received: from [65.55.111.86] ([65.55.111.86:62985] helo=BLU004-OMC2S11.hotmail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 69/B0-29409-EAD14055 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:38:23 -0500 Received: from BLU436-SMTP46 ([65.55.111.71]) by BLU004-OMC2S11.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.22751); Sat, 14 Mar 2015 04:38:20 -0700 X-TMN: [RnoQTO79fSyfqtHljTOgaayayVqWgBuF] X-Originating-Email: [bobwei9@hotmail.com] Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2070.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:38:15 +0100 CC: Levi Morrison , internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: To: =?utf-8?Q?Pavel_Kou=C5=99il?= X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2070.6) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Mar 2015 11:38:18.0633 (UTC) FILETIME=[5DFF8790:01D05E4B] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][PRE-VOTE] Reserving More Types in PHP 7 From: bobwei9@hotmail.com (Bob Weinand) > Am 14.03.2015 um 10:21 schrieb Pavel Kou=C5=99il : >=20 > On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Levi Morrison wrote: >> RFC Link: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reserve_more_types_in_php_7 >>=20 >> The proposal has changed from the original. It no longer reserves the >> aliases out of the interest of reserving the smallest useful, >> uncontroversial subset. Some people want to remove aliases for these >> types so in the interest of being as uncontroversial as possible I am >> no longer proposing to remove them. >>=20 >> This will go into voting on March 15th unless something comes up >> between now and then to persuade me otherwise. >>=20 >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>=20 >>=20 >=20 > Hello, >=20 > why do you consider a "true" and "false" as a type? It's not a type. = it's a > value? >=20 > Regards > Pavel Kouril These aren't types. But useful for e.g. union types (int|false). [By the = way they're internally handled as different types=E2=80=A6 but that's an = implementation detail=E2=80=A6] Also, he doesn't call them anywhere types, it's just the title. Bob=