Kris Craig wrote:
With all due respect, it's a logical fallacy to draw a direct comparison between these two simply because they both happen to be uphill battles.
There is a direct comparison between the two. Both provide something that a large number of people did not or do not want anything to do with. Namespace was forced on us in much the same way you are currently trying to force this on us. Many people who were pursuaded that namespace was a good idea are now realising that it wasn't and was the thin end of wedge which this discussion is once again trying to force open. I have no objections to 'object orientated' as that is how I have always used PHP, but the BULK of the data I am handling is simply strings which 'magically' get converted to the format I need. I don't see any use for 'type hinting' in any form since I NEED to check if a string I get in has the right data in before I store it in a database field. I don't need to throw some random error which needs handling ... I just handle the errors in line as I process the data. My framework helps to ensure what I get in is right in the first place anyway, so even the in-line checks are probably redundant nowadays!
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