Le Thu Feb 19 2015 at 00:38:25, François Laupretre <franc...@php.net> a écrit : > > > Why can't strictness follow that path? > > Because strictness is not the overall objective the PHP language is aiming > to.
I cannot agree more with that. > If it was the case, your mechanism would be fine, but deprecating ZPP > conversion would be simpler and fine too. I'm not so sure about the "simpler". > This is definitely not the same case as generating a notice on array to > string. > Sure, I just wanted to pinpoint that "because strictness is not the overall objective of the PHP language", we may consider a weak approach accompanied by an activable (configurable?) mechanism that would notices us of bad types, bad coercion, conversion with loss,... > That's what I hate in this 'weak' vs 'strict' terminology. It makes > implicit that 'strict' is the natural future and improvement of 'weak'. > That's absolutely not the case as 'weak' mode is not as negative as name > suggests, and 'strict' is not so positive either. So, you may stop > considering that the natural path for 'weak'-typed software is to migrate > to strict types. > I never implied something like this, quite the opposite since I feel I am completely aligned with you! > When we decide encouraging migrating to strict mode with a deprecation on > ZPP conversion, I hope I'll be far away... > +1 > > PS: your feedback makes me feel it would be; even more; a viable option > :) > > Fine. But may I remind you the so-called great benefit you underlined in > your post is totally wrong and shows total ignorance of the difference > between casting and ZPP conversion rules which, IMO, is a fundamental > pre-requisite before laughing at people working on this. > I never laughed at any one here. Sorry if someone felt that way by the simple use of a smiley.
