On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> On 2010-11-23, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Felipe Pena wrote:
> > > . classes named as any of the type hint scalar types
> > > do not work anymore
> > > aka class int {}
> >
> > Yeah, there is a slight hint of a BC break in case you have a class
> > named "int" or "float" etc. But there is:
> > http://uk.php.net/manual/en/userlandnaming.tips.php
> >
> > Perhaps we can reduce the current list of classes:
> > int, integer, real, double, string, binary, scalar, array, object,
> > bool, boolean
> > to what the manual uses though (for prototypes):
> > int, float, string, binary, scalar, array, object, bool
> > (Point #18 at http://doc.php.net/php/dochowto/chapter-conventions.php)
>
> Sorry, but this is actually a pretty grave BC break.
>
> Currently, you can do the following:
>
> namespace Foo\Validator;
>
> class Int {}
During our namespace discussion, this is exactly what I warned about. In
order to make use of namespaces, you need to have atleast two "elements"
in your class names otherwise we can still never introduce a new class.
But that was not listened too.
> As Sebastian noted, it seems this should be addressed with the new
> lexer; I'd argue that if the current type hinting must introduce new
> keywords, it should wait until the new lexer is in place in order to
> insulate end-users from such changes.
The new lexer however, is a slower; so not a viable solution right now.
> With a defined release process, *everyone* knows what must be done, by
> when, making the process more transparent and *gasp* democratic.
Well, I don't think we've ever been democratic. I probably think
that that wouldn't even work. Also, I think an alpha has pretty much
been announce nicely on time for people to know what's happening.
Derick
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