Heh, so, this week, a coworker of mine started using PHP 7, and he calls me over, and he's like, "I don't get it, I had heard PHP 7 was supposed to have type-hints now - it worked for return-types, but what am I doing wrong, I can't seem to get this to work for properties?"
He actually had something like "public int $id" in a class-declaration on his screen, and was genuinely confused - he simply assumed that would work, since it worked for return-types. When I explained to him that, no, PHP 7 still isn't type-hinted, it's *more* type-hinted, but still not fully type-hinted, he gave me the lemon-face. You know the one. Like you just ate a lemon. Yeah. I don't think there's a developer on my team and this point who isn't at least checking out other languages in frustration with the lack of features and consistency. I'm starting to feel like we're at risk of some of our best, young developers walking, if somebody offers them a chance to work with more "exciting" languages like Scala, Go, Dart, etc. - I'm not trying to say that proper type-hinting is the whole answer, but I believe it would go a long way towards consistency and the sense of completeness you get from some of the competing languages, where these features were engineered into the language from the design stage, rather than being added on a bit at a time. Any plans to revive this RFC or is it officially dead? On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Pascal MARTIN, AFUP < mail...@pascal-martin.fr> wrote: > Le 10/06/2016 12:38, Joe Watkins a écrit : > >> The vote for typed properties has been restarted. >> > > Hi, > > We, at AFUP, often tend to be on the "more static / strict types" side of > things, and it remains this way for this RFC -- which means we would be +1 > for typed properties. > > A few noted this was not quite "the PHP way", while the majority felt this > was in line with previous changes (like scalar type declarations, nullable > types...) and could prove interesting for complex applications. > > Judging from where the votes are right now, I'm guessing this RFC will not > pass, but, in any case, thanks for your work on this! > > There are more "yes" than "no", so maybe it will open a path towards > something, maybe a bit different, in another future version... > > -- > Pascal MARTIN, AFUP - French UG > http://php-internals.afup.org/ > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
