On 16 July 2018 at 19:17, Larry Garfield <la...@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
> It sounds like your main argument for why to even bother with this is > performance. I think you're greatly over-estimating the performance > impact of > type checking. I wager if you just cache a few database lookups and > you'll > get a much larger performance win. For far, far less effort and confusion. > That's true of *current* type hints, but performance has absolutely been cited as a reason not to introduce additional features, such as typed arrays (e.g. int[] $foo or array<int,int> $foo). I think that's the motivation here, rather than optimizing existing code. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]
