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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 16:31:50 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][PRE-VOTE] Reserving More Types in PHP 7
From: pjsturgeon@gmail.com (Philip Sturgeon)

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Bob Weinand <bobwei9@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Am 14.03.2015 um 10:21 schrieb Pavel Kou=C5=99il <pajousek@gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote:
>>> RFC Link: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reserve_more_types_in_php_7
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> This will go into voting on March 15th unless something comes up
>>> between now and then to persuade me otherwise.
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>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> why do you consider a "true" and "false" as a type? It's not a type. it'=
s a
>> value?
>>
>> 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 im=
plementation detail=E2=80=A6]
>
> Also, he doesn't call them anywhere types, it's just the title.
>
> Bob
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This is a solid plan. Vote this and everyone should +1 it, so if this
scalar squabble results in a a 0-0-0 score we can at least add scalars
later.

Regardless of scalar types it's just a good idea, and would give
lolphp one less thing to pissmoan about.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4103480/really-php-argument-1-passed-to-=
my-function-must-be-an-instance-of-string-s