[PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE][RFC] Coercive Scalar Type Hints

2015-03-11 Thread Benoit Schildnecht
Hi, You are making a very huge mistake, IMHO. By having 2 conflicting RFC, you are taking the risk they both fail. And it won't do any good to the language. While you could have either proposed yours after the STH one if it would have failed, or create a new RFC to make the STH one evolve if it

Re: [PHP-DEV] Request Feedback for Instance Variable Sugar RFC

2015-03-09 Thread Benoit Schildnecht
Mike Dugan just told me § and £ aren't standard symbols, and he is right, I didn't have a picture of a standard keyboard when I proposed these symbols :( I don't know what could be used instead. Certainly a combination of symbols, but I can't find one. Someone got an idea ? Regards. Benoit

[PHP-DEV] Re: A modest proposal: __contructStatic

2015-02-15 Thread Benoit Schildnecht
Hi Patrick, I don't think it should be implemented. If you are calling a static method like a non-static method, your code has a problem. I think it would do more harm than good. Not only for the code comprehension and logic, but also for the skills of the people who make this mistake. But I

Re: [PHP-DEV] [DISCUSSION] Make empty() a Variadic

2015-02-13 Thread Benoit Schildnecht
Hi, Sebastian B.-Hagensen a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion : caojcv8yx7vohtd1ja2obdrntdzb0q1soyqdyhsar3vt2vgs...@mail.gmail.com... 2015-02-13 14:45 GMT+01:00 Thomas Punt tp...@hotmail.co.uk: Hi Francois, From: franc...@tekwire.net May I suggest to extend your proposal to

Re: [PHP-DEV] [DISCUSSION] Make empty() a Variadic

2015-02-13 Thread Benoit Schildnecht
Hey Tom, Thomas Punt a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion Hey Benoit, From: bensor...@neuf.fr Hi, I agree, this behaviour should be extended to all the is_* functions if possible. I'm not sure we can do that for all of the is_* functions, since is_callable() accepts up to