On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Bob Weinand <bobw...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > after all, some people are not happy with the current proposals about > > scalar types. So, they both still possibly may fail. > > > > Thus, I'd like to come up with a fallback proposal in case both proposals > > fail: > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/basic_scalar_types > > > > It shouldn't prevent any future improvements and still give use all the > > advantages of scalar types. > > > > Before I even start thinking about this, I'd like to have clarification as > to whether this RFC is still eligible for targeting the PHP 7.0 release. > The currently accepted interpretation is that all RFC votes must have > started by March 15th, which is irreconcilable with an RFC that was only > submitted today. > > Does this mean that we're delaying the PHP 7 schedule by two weeks? > > I feel like this topic is getting out of control. It's been discussed for > months, now we had one vote on Andrea's withdrawn proposal, then another > vote on Anthony's proposal, then another vote on the Zeev et al proposal - > and then we're going to have another one on Bob's proposal? With every vote > taking another couple of weeks. Hey, maybe I should also submit a STH > proposal that we can vote on after that? > > If both Anthony's and Zeev's proposal fail, I would recommend to just drop > this topic for 7.0 and discuss it again for PHP 7.1. The necessary > forward-compatibility changes to allow that are already proposed in another > RFC. > Bob proposes the base common part of both other RFCs. It actually had to be proposed in first place. I would prefer this instead of nothing. I think many people think the same. Thanks. Dmitry. > > Nikita >
