> > Anyone surprised by any of the changes in recent versions that boil down > to "know your types and know if you actually have a variable" has been > living under a rock for the last 20 years. None of this has been a > secret. The language has been providing more and more tools to > know-your-types for years. >
I have seen this type of comment here many times and I don't understand why it keeps being repeated. The world is made up of many rocks and we're all living under one of them. This whole thread is nothing but my-rock-is-the-only-rock-everyone-else-should-live-under type of comments. > And yes, I used to work on a system that didn't do that properly. (TYPO3, > ~800,000 LOC) It took me a few weeks, but we still managed to fix all of > these issues in mostly one-person-month, mostly with dropping "?? null" > around in various places. It's not the world-destroyer people make it out > to be. > Do you honestly think that everyone with a small/medium PHP project (500k~1M LOC) out there has someone as competent as you capable of achieving what you did? That is definitely a dream rock to live under. -- Marco Deleu
