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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:32:02 +0000
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To: Dan Ackroyd <danack@basereality.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Reserve even more type hints
From: leight@gmail.com (Leigh)

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On 17 March 2015 at 07:08, Leigh <leight@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree, mixed seems to serve no purpose (just don't hint the parameter,
> same result). Resource is something we're hopefully going to phase out over
> time as they get replaced with objects (like Nikita already did with GMP,
> and hopefully will happen to streams some time between now and 7.1 :)).
>

It has been pointed out to me, that mixed is useful for being explicit,
rather than having a single untyped parameter amongst typed ones, you know
that it was designed to accept anything rather than being an oversight.

Completely valid point.

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