Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Better type names for int64 RFC
[email protected] (Ferenc Kovacs)
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2014.08.22. 17:56 ezt írta ("Jan Ehrhardt" <[email protected]>):
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> Andrea Faulds in php.internals (Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:32:51 +0100):
> >I’m very much in favour of this RFC. It is not necessary to change
> >the type names after all; if people turn on compiler warnings, they’ll
> >find out what’s broken anyway.
>
> 'people'? Which people?
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> Will a normal user ever notice anything of the change from long to int?
> Isn't this something that only developers of extensions will notice? My
> guess is that this chnage is only a minor point when converting
> extensions to ng.
>
People means ext devs here.
The concern raised here that if we delay the namechange then early
adopters(ext developers adding support for php7) have to update their code
twice.
I don't think this will major pita (compared to the phpng changes or other
upcoming stuff) but would have been nice resolving this before the merge