Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE][RFC] Scalar Type Hinting with Cast

hi Andrea,

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Andrea Faulds <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 14 Sep 2014, at 00:35, Andrea Faulds <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I have postponed the vote after further thought. It’s been a while since this was discussed on the list.
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>> However, it is my intent to open voting properly at some point soon, if all goes to plan.
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> I have withdrawn the RFC. I do not feel anymore that it is the way forward with scalar type hints in PHP.

Sigh. Here we go again.

I do not think we will ever reach an agreement on the list before the
RFC goes to the voting phase. That's why I think the RFC should
contain the most requested options and go with them. Any further
discussions will simply create more confusions and yet again move to a
dead end, we all lose.

It would be great if there are two sets of options:
- One about having scalar typed arguements, hinted or not, simple
yes/no, so we at least agree on having the feature
- a set of options about how should it work
  . strict
  . what the rfc describes in its last state
  . matching, if possible at all, current casting, following what
(int)$foo and co or whatever is considered as "the common casting php
way"

I am not saying these are the only options or only the correct ones,
there may be other. I only would like to get this sorted out sooner
rather than later.

If we agree on the feature itself and we do not see a clear majority
on one point or another, let take the top two options and try to
figure what has to be changed to get a majority (2nd phase vote).

To be more clear: We must get a decision here. I am convinced that
this is a top requested feature, since very long. Delay it forever
only because we are unable to find a concensus sounds pretty bad. Let
get us together to finally have this feature implemented, in the best
possible way.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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