On 2012-03-06, Anthony Ferrara <ircmax...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
I really like the proposal you set forth. I have zero clue what impact it would have on performance, however, so I'm deferring that discussion to those who do. As a user and framework developer, I'd love to see it in place -- casting support at the function/method parameter level would greatly simplify a lot of code I write. > 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 >>> > >>> -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matt...@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
