My concern is the total lack of talk on-list about it. It's obviously not perfect, but there has been little to no talk on-list about it. That is an indication to me that it's not ready or that it won't get in if put to a vote...
Thoughts? Anthony On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Simon Schick <simonsimc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It got quite around that because we have some RFCs to this where the > functionality seems to be defined as the people thought it should be. > Otherwise they can raise their hands and write a mail that they want to > update the RFC - but as there's no one doing that, I think we're quite > close to what we wanted. > > Take a look at it and feel free to add your ideas in this thread. > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/parameter_type_casting_hints > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/object_cast_to_types > > Bye > Simon > > 2012/3/6 Kris Craig <kris.cr...@gmail.com> > >> Wow no offense, but your timing is terrible, Raymond! We've been going >> back and forth on this for the past couple weeks now, though the discussion >> has quieted for the moment. >> >> I would suggest you go through some of the recent posts on Internals. >> Right now there basically is no solid consensus on this issue, though some >> of us have been working to change that. But as it stands now, I'm not >> aware of any plans to introduce expanded typing of any kind in the >> foreseeable future. And even if we did, I highly doubt it would happen >> before PHP 6. >> >> --Kris >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Raymond Irving <xwis...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > I came across some info on the web that states that scalar type hinting >> was >> > added to the PHP trunk but it did not make it's way into 5.4 because of >> > objections from the community. Will it ever make it's way into 5.5? >> > >> > I know PHP is considered to be a weak typed language but it should also >> be >> > about freedom. Freedom for a PHP developer to choose to use scalar type >> > hinting whenever he/she sees the need. >> > >> > >> > Best regards, >> > __ >> > Raymond >> > >> -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
