Hi! > Most? > > Python has it, java too, ruby and perl not. We can continue to list > those having them or not, not sure that brings much to this discussion.
Only Python 3 has it, and I'm not sure bringing up Python 3, given its known adoption issues, is the best example how we could plan PHP 7. In any case, python 3 seems to be rather an exception than the rule amongst scripting/dynamic languages, as it seems to me. That brings to this discussion an argument that if people that have no PHP baggage, no BC issues related to existing PHP code, etc. but working in roughly the same space as PHP under roughly the same paradigms chose to forego strict typing in that context - maybe it's not such a stupid idea. Maybe we can learn from their experience too. We've often borrowed from other languages, so consider it a case of negative borrowing :) > Everyone I asked wants it, be at conferences, UGs, or devolopers of one > of the top tools or framework out there. There was > also http://www.php-vote.com/browse/latest showing in the top requests. This site has whopping 44 votes for "type hints with scalar types" and 52 for "100% unicode". It is rather hard for me to take it as a data point that it is requested for everybody. > In any case, this endless discussion leads nowhere and we are not going > to have anything done using such debates and arguing. OK, how do you propose to make anything done? Just ram through whatever gets through the vote at random moment of time, whatever the disagreements and issues are? Use some process which would allow us to find a better solution? Which process? -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
