On 16 March 2015 at 11:49, Pavel Kouřil <pajou...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > > Seriously, think about it for a while - when some setting that changes > how code behaves was a good idea?
The problem is that there are two irreconcilable camps - some people want weak STHs, other people want strict STHs. This RFC gives both camps what they want, at the cost of having the dual mode. I personally would prefer a single mode, with strict STHs but I can see that would piss off the other camp. And so to me, this RFC even with the ickiness of the setting, is an an acceptable cost to giving both sides what they want. Oh, and people who don't want to use scalar type hints at all, can still continue to not use scalar type hints, and their code will continue to keep working. Anyone who is voting no, isn't doing so because they are missing out on a feature, they're doing it to block other people from getting what they want in PHP, which is just a terrible way to vote. And if the strict camp are wrong and strict scalars are just not used by a large proportion of the PHP community, it would be trivial to remove support for the strict mode in a future version of PHP, as all code that runs in strict mode, will automatically work in weak mode. cheers Dan -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
