[PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints

Good evening,

At long last, I’m going to put the RFC to a vote. It’s been long enough -
I don’t think there needs to be, or will be, much further discussion.

I’d like to make sure that everyone voting understands the RFC fully.
Please read the RFC in full: the details are important. And if  anyone has
any questions or uncertainties, please ask them before voting. I am very
happy to answer them.

I would urge everyone who wants type hints to vote for this RFC. It is not a
perfect solution, but there can be no perfect solution to this issue.
However, I think it is better than most of the alternatives suggested thus
far - see the rationale section, and previous discussions. Crucially, this
RFC would keep PHP a weakly-typed language, and not force either strict
typing, nor weak typing, on anyone who does not want it. It would allow the
addition of type hints to existing codebases. It would not create a situation
where userland functions are strict yet internal functions are not, because
the strict mode affects both. I’ve tested the implementation myself on my
own code, and it worked well, providing benefits other proposals would not
have given (see my previous post about my experiences).

Voting starts today (2015-02-05) and ends in two weeks’ time (2015-02-19).
In addition to the vote on the main RFC, there is also a vote on the type
aliases issue, and a vote to reserve the type names for future RFCs’ sake
if this RFC fails.

The RFC can be found here, and it contains a voting widget:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hints

Thank you for your time.

--
Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/





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