[PHP-DEV] Reserving primitive types

2015-02-08 Thread Timm Friebe
Hello everyone, I've been following the Static type hints discussion for a while now. Aside from its content, which there are some strong sentiments about, there's also another recurring pattern - the wish for voting options instead of just yes/no. Along these lines I've created an RFC on one

Re: [PHP-DEV] Reserving primitive types

2015-02-08 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hi Timm, On 8 Feb 2015, at 12:04, Timm Friebe p...@thekid.de wrote: Hello everyone, I've been following the Static type hints discussion for a while now. Presumably you mean scalar not static. Aside from its content, which there are some strong sentiments about, there's also another

Re: [PHP-DEV] Reserving primitive types

2015-02-08 Thread Timm Friebe
Hi, I personally see the benefits this could have but also the BC break this would introduce. [...] I don't see the point of this: the Scalar Type Hints RFC already has a voting option on reserving the type names, and it is set to pass, so by the time your RFC could go to a vote, it

Re: [PHP-DEV] Reserving primitive types

2015-02-08 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Hi Timm 2015-02-08 13:04 GMT+01:00 Timm Friebe p...@thekid.de: Hello everyone, I've been following the Static type hints discussion for a while now. Aside from its content, which there are some strong sentiments about, there's also another recurring pattern - the wish for voting options

Re: [PHP-DEV] Reserving primitive types

2015-02-08 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hi, On 8 Feb 2015, at 13:32, Timm Friebe p...@thekid.de wrote: I personally see the benefits this could have but also the BC break this would introduce. [...] I don't see the point of this: the Scalar Type Hints RFC already has a voting option on reserving the type names, and it is set

Re: [PHP-DEV] Reserving primitive types

2015-02-08 Thread Andrea Faulds
On 8 Feb 2015, at 15:48, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: If this RFC would somehow pass, yes. However, you’re introducing a competing proposal at the “eleventh hour”, so to speak, which is terribly nice. Unless there’s a radical shift in how people vote on the Scalar Type Hints RFC, it