On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Xinchen Hui <larue...@php.net> wrote: > Hey: > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote: >> On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Xinchen Hui wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > On Mar 16, 2015 4:29 PM, "Xinchen Hui" <larue...@php.net> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> that means, I need to add a lots of (int) while I try to call a >>> >> function in a library which is not written by myself. >>> >> >>> >> is that right? >>> > >>> > You got the answer but one thing bothers me a lot right now. >>> > >>> > How did you vote against this rfc while missing the core point of it >>> > (after >>> > actually having a strict mode)? >> >>> as I said, >>> " >>> acutaly, I believe in most applications, they will still keep this off.. >>> >>> so why we introduce such thing? >>> " >>> I don't like strict_types at all.. >> >> To be frank, I don't think "I don't like this" is a terribly good reason >> to vote against (or for something). What is important is how many people >> would actually benefit from a feature, without it causing issues for >> others. I am certainly no fan of the "declare" *syntax*, but I do know, >> from talking at conferences that many many developers would like to see >> scalar type hints in some way — both weak (mode 1 of the STHv5 RFC), and > I think they just want a weak type hintings(PHP is a weak type > language).. not strict types. > > especially not a dual mode, switch on/off by a declare line.. > > it looks so ugly to me.. > >> strict (mode 2). It even caters for people that don't want to use them >> at all, as they can simply not use them. I also know, that without a >> dual mode, it seems very unlikely for scalar type hints to make it >> into PHP 7, and I don't think that is what users want. As this is our >> *best* bet, I can only vote "yes". > I understand your choice, but for me, as a six year PHP user. I can > see how strict types can benifit me.. can not > > the only usage I can image is, turn on it in developer env to clean > types passing, and turn off in produce env for safety(in case I forget > to cast some types from $_GET $_POST). > > which is definitlely can be done by a extension, or hook.. > > thanks >> >> cheers, >> Derick > > > > -- > Xinchen Hui > @Laruence > http://www.laruence.com/
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