Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:92326 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 21152 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2016 06:09:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Apr 2016 06:09:32 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.177.120.119 marston-home.demon.co.uk Received: from [80.177.120.119] ([80.177.120.119:10814] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C5/48-64966-B9580175 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:09:31 -0400 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net References: <570E99AC.3090804@fleshgrinder.com><570EA5EB.8090501@fleshgrinder.com><570EAB0D.6080706@gmail.com><570EB67E.8010908@garfieldtech.com><5B147E88-CC0A-4CBC-A49D-C7FE3BF557C0@zend.com><6F.C3.12455.94C5F075@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 07:09:14 +0100 Lines: 1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 16.4.3564.1216 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V16.4.3564.1216 X-Posted-By: 80.177.120.119 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Improving PHP's type system From: TonyMarston@hotmail.com ("Tony Marston") "Levi Morrison" wrote in message news:CAFMT4Nr4GmnBBsOfydF5sLOtaEo1rZZiPdGdV8v6y+Z-6PVCOg@mail.gmail.com... > >> There are too many people out there who are trying to make the language >> more complicated than it need be just to prove how clever they are. > >I can assure you I am not proposing these RFCs to show how clever I am. If millions of programmers have written millions of lines of code to write effective programs WITHOUT the use of type hinting/enforcement, then how come there are some people out there who keep saying that PHP is a bad language because it does not have type checking? Those who cannot write effective software without these "clever" additions to the language are doing nothing but announcing to the world that they are not clever enough to write effective software using their own limited abilities. -- Tony Marston