On 10 November 2016 at 10:38, Joe Watkins <pthre...@pthreads.org> wrote:
> Morning Peter, > > > I'll put RFC: On hold, then apply patch, draft some info in RFC and then > set up new voting. > > Just a few messages up from here ... > > Would you prefer a new thread to make that announcement (I think it may be > better) ? > No, it's fine IMO (and is the norm) to just have a message in the [VOTE] thread. I simply missed Michał saying he was closing the vote, when skimming the thread this morning, so thanks for pointing it out. :) > > Cheers > Joe > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Peter Cowburn <petercowb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On 10 November 2016 at 09:11, Niklas Keller <m...@kelunik.com> wrote: >> >>> 2016-11-09 21:53 GMT+01:00 Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de>: >>> >>> > On 09.11.2016 at 17:28, Joe Watkins wrote: >>> > >>> > > I want to explain why I voted no on this: >>> > > >>> > > I think it's significantly less useful without variance, >>> variance is >>> > > something that is usually difficult to achieve in PHP, but not for >>> this >>> > > feature in particular. >>> > >>> > Can you please elaborate what you mean with variance? I see some >>> > practical use cases for covariance of a method with return type object, >>> > but I don't see how contravariance could be achieved for parameters of >>> > type object. >>> > >>> > If your suggestion is only about invariance of object return types, I'm >>> > not sure if this very special case would make sense (for consistency >>> > reasons). >>> > >>> >>> We already have it for iterable -> array. We would have it for all other >>> types if there wouldn't be an implementation issue. >>> >>> Regards, Niklas >>> >>> Cheers, >>> > Christoph >>> > >>> > > I absolutely want it, but I want it to be properly useful. >>> > > >>> > > If the RFC were halted and patched to include variance, I'd +1 >>> it. >>> > > >>> > > Cheers >>> > > Joe >>> > > >>> > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Michał Brzuchalski >>> <michal@brzuchalski. >>> > .com> >>> > > wrote: >>> > > >>> > >> Hi everyone, >>> > >> >>> > >> Two weeks have passed since this RFC was put to discussion here. >>> > >> >>> > >> Therefore, I'm going to put it to a vote for inclusion in PHP 7.2. >>> > >> >>> > >> Voting starts today, 2016-11-06, and will close after two weeks on >>> the >>> > >> Sunday 2016-11-20 at midnight. >>> > >> >>> > >> The RFC and voting widget can be found here: >>> > >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/object-typehint >>> >> >> The vote appears to be closed right now, did I miss an announcement? >> >> >>> >>> > >> >>> > >> It's a normal 2/3 majority required vote. >>> > >> >>> > >> Thanks! >>> > >> -- >>> > >> regards / pozdrawiam, >>> > >> -- >>> > >> Michał Brzuchalski >>> > >> about.me/brzuchal >>> > >> brzuchalski.com >>> > >> >>> > > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >>> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> > >>> > >>> >> >> >
