Hi! > Thanks for your input Sara, everything sounds very interesting. In all > fairness I haven't looked at HHVM but I from what you described about > this particular feature sounds good. > > Should I conclude that there's enough interest for this feature and > move from a gist to a RFC? If so, I would definitely need someone to > help out with the implementation.
We already have a bunch of RFCs about strict typing in PHP: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typechecking So I personally am not sure we need yet another RFC on the topic - given that we discussed previous ones multiple times. While HHVM is a very interesting project, their use case is pretty specific and narrow, and, as I understand, connected to a single application (albeit running huge traffic numbers). So I'm not sure copying whatever they do is necessarily good for PHP as a whole. HHVM case is basically static compilation of monolithic application, as far as I remember, which is not how PHP is usually run. It is true that such mode negates many arguments against static typing, but it negates them only for specific narrow case of HHVM, not for PHP as a whole. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
