On 19/02/15 09:13, Zeev Suraski wrote: > Obviously, I think 'weak' campers have a lot to gain too - by making > sensible conversions work fine as expected, without having to resort to > explicit casts. > And everyone stands to gain from having just one mode, instead of two. > The coercive typing approach would require each camp to give up a bit of > their 'ideology', but it also gives both schools of thought *most* of what > they want, including the key tenets for each camp (rejecting non-sensible > conversions - always, allowing sensible ones - always). I believe that's > what makes it a good compromise, a better one than the currently proposed > RFC.
Now that all made sense! My only grey area is 'allowing sensible ones' where the size is an integral part of what is 'sensible' ... the one where conventional strict typing uses a type of the right size? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
