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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:51:03 -0600
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To: Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Union types
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
>
> On 14 =D7=91=D7=99=D7=95=D7=A0=D7=99 2016, at 22:53, Levi Morrison <levim=
@php.net> wrote:
>
> I'm personally against Union types because it makes no sense for classes
>
>
> I've been over this before but I'll repeat it here for completeness:
> this is not true.
>
>
> There are more than enough constructs in PHP to handle all these use case=
s,
> and handle them nicely.  We don't need specialized constructs for every u=
se
> case.

To clarify here, you are saying we don't need unions because they are
a special case, yes? But you previously stated you are in favor of
special casing the language types such as numeric?

These are at odds.