Daniel,
In order to radically change PHP you need very strong consensus. If
you don't have it, the status quo holds.
Strict typing doesn't have anything remotely close to strong
consensus. It doesn't really matter if a lot of people support it -
there are also plenty of people who oppose it. Among them you have
the original authors of the language, many core developers, and
countless community members. That seals the deal - the status quo
cannot change when so many oppose it - even if many support it.
You should definitely take a closer look if you think that there's
only a small group of people who oppose it. Recommended reading are
this list and Johannes's blog.
Zeev
At 01:05 12/08/2010, Daniel Egeberg wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 23:26, Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com> wrote:
> Now that strict typing is pretty clearly off the table [...]
Did I miss a vote or something? The only thing I've seen is the same
small group of people that has been fighting for the last few months.
Your reasoning seems to be "there are people who complained, so it's
out", but "there are plenty of people who haven't complained, so it's
in" is an equally justifiable position to take. Obviously people
aren't going to sends loads of "I think everything is perfectly
fine"-emails.
PS: Can I get a list of the PHP axioms? Seeing as that's apparently
how things are decided, it would be nice if people won't have to waste
your precious time making obnoxious feature requests that are
*clearly* against the PHP axioms.
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Daniel Egeberg
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