Zeev, There was a comprehensive discussion on this functionality a few months back on the mailing list and the overall consensus was that the functionality made sense (as was committed) but was to late in the game to be part of the 5.3 branch. So, now that the trunk has been established it went in.
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com> wrote: > Maybe I view trunk in a different way than others, but I think committing > it turns it into some sort of 'status quo', and now we'd need a good reason > to change it. > > I think major developments should be discussed on internals (IRC's fine, > but not enough), and should be discussed before committing to trunk. > > Zeev > > At 18:04 22/05/2010, Pierre Joye wrote: > >> hi Zeev, >> >> It seems that there was a bit of discussions on IRC about committing >> Ilia's implementation. However it is trunk, and trunk is a development >> tree. That means its purpose is to develop new PHP features. But it >> does not meant that these features will make it in the next releases >> or if they will remain as they are now. >> >> Cheers, >> >> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com> wrote: >> > Not sure what happened here, but scalar type hinting was still up for >> > discussion as there are two conflicting RFCs. >> > >> > Not sure how come a version of it was committed to trunk, so it should >> > definitely not be documented at this time. >> > >> > Zeev >> > >> > At 17:51 22/05/2010, Philip Olson wrote: >> > >> >> The documentation team is about to document a few trunk features, but >> >> we're unsure about scalar type hinting. I see no final proposal (only >> three >> >> old RFC's) nor recent discussion here. Is the recent scalar type >> hinting >> >> commit meant to bring discussion to the topic? Or, has this form of >> scalar >> >> type hinting been finalized somewhere? Please advise. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Philip >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > >> > >> > -- >> > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Pierre >> >> @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org >> > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
