On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Levi Morrison <le...@php.net> wrote:
> > My logic is quite simple: > > 1. Something as big as Typed Properties shouldn't be a last minute, > rushed > > RFC. Really - any RFC shouldn't - but in particular major language > changes. > > I have seen this sentiment expressed elsewhere. I want to personally > affirm that Nikita and Bob have been working hard on this for a long > time. This is not a last minute change being rushed. They have been > quite thorough and have discovered and fixed many edge cases that I > suspect other authors would not have found or would have ignored. Yes, > it is being voted on in the narrow gap between first alphas and > feature freeze but that does not mean it is rushed. Ack, and it is such a massive improvement that pushing it back now would simply delay a very huge jump (forward) in ecosystem quality at large for more than a year. Bob and Nikita got it right, they made something well thought out, well tested, and previously already discussed: give the vote a chance, add a sub-vote for which version to target, if required. Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/
