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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Improving PHP's type system
From: vchkpw@developersdesk.com (Rick Widmer)

On 4/19/2016 2:41 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>I try to share my worry that
> some of the things being proposed include seriously complicating PHP's
> conceptual model while serving at best infrequent use cases. Simplicity
> is a virtue, and we have already lost significant amount of that virtue.
> Maybe we gained more - I don't know yet, as most of our user base isn't
> even on 5.5 by now. But it does worry me that we are not only losing it
> - we seem to be actively trying to get rid of it.
>

<Loud cheering!>

I just thought that needed to be repeated!