Hello internals,
Zeev's idea to bring peace to the galaxy seems like a good idea, but
impossible to implement in practice.
But it got me thinking about how one might introduce static typing
into a dynamically typed language w/out breaking BC.
And then I had this crazy idea:
//int
$i = 0;
//str
Breaking BC might be unnecessary if instead of changing the default
behavior of @, you add an additional flag to error_reporting that
enables the new behavior, something like E_UNSILENCE_FATAL. Then
developers would only need to switch a flag in php.ini to get the old
behavior back, instead of re-w
