OK. But maybe that's why PHP is better than those languages :)

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 5 February 2015 23:22:26 GMT, Andi Gutmans <a...@zend.com> wrote:
>
> >having such a declare(…) syntax will be ridiculed by the broader app
> >dev community until the end of time…
>
> I think that's laying it on a bit thick. It's no worse than Python's "from
> __future__ import", or JS's 'use strict;' (quotes included).
>
> I wish unknown declare directives were ignored, though, because it would
> make for a great forward-compatibility mechanism. Still, that, like the
> syntax format, is a decision made many years ago.
>
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