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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][Status] Scalar Type Declarations Voting Date
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From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

On 15/03/15 21:33, Anthony Ferrara wrote:
> However, it has become exceedingly clear to me that this good faith
> has not been reciprocated. The understanding that we had when both
> proposals opened has now been violated. Rules have been broken and
> politics are ensuing in an attempt to sabotage this proposal. Rather
> than working together, "unofficial polls", backdoor politics and poor
> behavior have created yet more toxicity.

It is clear that while a majority of people may want type hinting in
PHP7, just how to achieve that is NOT agreed. Even nudging THIS RFC just
over the target vote still leaves many problems. Just how many people
are voting for strict mode only? How many for ANY weak mode and how many
would accept an alternative weak mode mechanism if strict mode was was a
separate option which could be optionally added.

Even claiming 'victory' would be a hollow win if what is included is
simply ignored by 1/3rd of the users. You obviously desperately want
strict mode, and I see no problem with that being an extension on top of
a weak mode implementation, but is the bundled weak mode really what
others want?

Even Zeev want's type hinting just not in the way currently being
proposed here, and perhaps a lot of the opposition is to that to the
detriment of adding type hinting - if we have to have it.

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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