On Aug 22, 2014 5:33 PM, "Andrea Faulds" <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > > > On 22 Aug 2014, at 12:16, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > As we were not given a chance to resolve this issue before the merge, a > > short proposal has been created, which aims to revert all unnecessary > > naming changes and instead use type names that are consistent with the > > existing code base and expectations: > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/better_type_names_for_int64 > > > > Due to the unexpected merge on short notice, with no chance for discussion, > > this issue is blocking a number of other patches. As such I ask if we can > > move through this RFC with a shortened cycle. I would not appreciate having > > to wait three weeks to have a workable codebase again. > > 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.
That's one of my points. They won't for all cases. And why good names reflecting the underlying type will help. It is what the 1st version if the int64 rfc did.
