On 2010-11-23, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > Are we effectively going to create the original type checking > > implementation, but in a separate component people would have to > > install - thereby creating two very different flavors of PHP? > > It's clearly a debugging aid for me. So this should be in a debugging > extension. I doubt any sort of shared hoster would install it, but it > *does* give people the power to do this for their own controlled set-up. > Also, if the extension is suddenly not there, the app will still work so > I am not buying your "two flavours" argument.
While the code may still work, it won't work *as* *expected*. If the PHP interpreter can execute the application, then it should provide the same output given the same input -- and this would not be the case. That's the two flavours argument. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matt...@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
