Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:86076 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 6760 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2015 06:54:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Apr 2015 06:54:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=walterp@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=walterp@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 74.125.82.43 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: walterp@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 74.125.82.43 mail-wg0-f43.google.com Received: from [74.125.82.43] ([74.125.82.43:33863] helo=mail-wg0-f43.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id E2/E2-27026-1B1D1455 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 02:54:42 -0400 Received: by wgso17 with SMTP id o17so51526566wgs.1 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:54:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=xL3T+s0gNs8U59O6NsbodOY+1nyLaKB1SrTGdkmVISY=; b=Hn+nbJ9xuwpsQ8DNMlfx8NTSdZyIZ7FHpieeYCHmpp6uyjqDx613fSquMnDGD3dwvB +Dj0TWhaBRkA2C6sHcYwf115SME2Ezv1lGvbVcwOhUhkmQKVTMkcAYdYUjF8Dr0psNMv SJLj+M+tZ7ASIOOYMLrt9mWMW6RiXSaY/R8Wm4arxXZxHcowOWchOTb8Q/5usrKK0YX4 dthi3gZvudEEImziWDI0AQ/YSqFuWlohK1wAyli7WG058rcU0B0X4Jo5IgnAxI21uskU B4v//Q8a5z170/100oEkpLDZjdF+wcMcySSVuFjyT+Dvb8QIIF7UbEdYRD1PZea6j7IU FIrA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.84.65 with SMTP id w1mr2632965wiy.20.1430376878700; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.27.227.11 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:54:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <55401F31.9030703@gmail.com> <55416849.9010808@gmail.com> <554176D6.2030007@gmx.de> <55418CBE.6050609@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:54:38 -0700 Message-ID: To: Yasuo Ohgaki Cc: PHP Internals Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d04440274bffea60514eb91c2 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding "numeric" type hint From: walterp@gmail.com (Walter Parker) --f46d04440274bffea60514eb91c2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > Hi Walter, > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Walter Parker wrote: > >> And that is relevant how? How many Android phone run PHP applications? > > > Search web for IoT devices that can run PHP. > > Regards, > > -- > Yasuo Ohgaki > yohgaki@ohgaki.net > You didn't answer the question: why should we care? Is there enough of user base now to care? IOT might be able to run PHP, but how many actually do? And of the ones that do, is automatically half fixing the code that bad programmers might write for the last remaining 32 bit platforms a good use of our time? I don't see the numeric type as fixing any of these problems... Walter -- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis --f46d04440274bffea60514eb91c2--