Tony Marston wrote on 09/02/2015 10:07:
There may not be an actual RFC for any of these *YET*, but the revolutionaries are still out there, plotting and scheming in their dark corners. They will be the ones who leap on an innocent-sounding feature and silently convert it to something more insidious.
Seriously!? PHP's decision process is wide open to scrutiny, and controversial features are nearly always loudly debated, to the point of holding up progress at times. The idea that someone could somehow slip a critically breaking change into the language *insidiously* is utterly ridiculous, and an insult to all the people who work hard honestly trying to make the language better for everyone.
Just look at how "type hinting" has been turned into "type enforcement" as an example.
OK, I'll look; I'll look at how many hours of debating it's generated, and how many different points of view have been put in, and how hard Andrea has worked to make the current proposal a compromise which breaks the deadlock. This is so completely the opposite of "revolutionaries plotting in dark corners" that the comparison is laughable.
Keep your conspiracy theories for Youtube, and concern yourself with the real proposals that are actually happening, all of which are evolutions of the language.
Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]
