[RFC] Enum proposal : Without type hinting first ? View as Markdown

Agreed. Just to clarify in case my post confused anyone, we are not (at
least to the best of my knowledge) in the process of developing the 6.0
release right now, nor am I suggesting that the ideas I floated should be
in 5.x. I apologize if I made anyone scratch their heads needlessly lol.

So yeah, I guess what I am saying is two things:

1. We should start thinking (and talking) about PHP 6 now and what it
   should look like.
2. Variable type hinting (as discussed in this thread) should be
   discussed in further detail as a fundamental change for 6.0.

I'm not sure whether or not I should create an RFC for this yet, as the
idea is still a bit vague. But I'll go ahead and create a separate
discussion topic here on Internals if there are no objections (later,
though; right now I'm going home ;P).

--Kris

2012/2/23 Samuel Deal samuel.deal@gmail.com

Hi,

Discussion disperses a way I didn't expect.

As far as I know, next PHP release will be the 5.5, and would have a
strong compatibility with 5.4.
So strict typing would not happened for 5.5 release.

If I understand correctly, at best, PHP 5.5 will have weak type hinting
(like
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typecheckingstrictandweak#option_1_current_type_juggeling_rules_with_e_strict_on_data_loss
).

So what do you think about having enum implementation in PHP 5.5 without
type hiting ?
Or with weak one if finally PHP 5.5 is released with weak type hinting ?

Perhaps we shoulld discuss about what kind of type hinting we want for 5.5
and 6.0 in separated threads ?

Regards

Samuel DEAL
samuel.deal@gmail.com