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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:45:04 -0600
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To: Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][PRE-VOTE] Reserving More Types in PHP 7
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2015-03-14 6:41 GMT+01:00 Levi Morrison <levim@php.net>:
>> 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.
>
> After this change I would change my vote to -1, because I would like
> the reserved type words to be consistent with those of the typecasts.
> While I agree that we should maybe drop aliases in typecasts like
> "real", I don't think it makes sense to reserve "Int" for class names,
> when we don't reserve "Integer" etc.

I may open the vote with multiple options, then. I really don't care
about this detail. If people want the aliases that's reasonable, and
if they don't want them that's reasonable too.