On 17 March 2015 at 07:08, Leigh <lei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I agree, mixed seems to serve no purpose (just don't hint the parameter, > same result). Resource is something we're hopefully going to phase out over > time as they get replaced with objects (like Nikita already did with GMP, > and hopefully will happen to streams some time between now and 7.1 :)). >
It has been pointed out to me, that mixed is useful for being explicit, rather than having a single untyped parameter amongst typed ones, you know that it was designed to accept anything rather than being an oversight. Completely valid point.
