Hi Stas, > -----Original Message----- > From: Stanislav Malyshev [mailto:smalys...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 6:28 PM > To: Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me>; internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Scalar Type Declaration Syntax Weirdness > > Hi! > > > It can't wait for 7.0.1, because banning this would be a > > backwards-compatibility break with 7.0.0. We have to fix it in 7.0.0 > > or not fix it ever. > > In theory, yes. In practice, if somebody starts using 7.0.0 and immediately > jumps > to using \int, I don't feel too bad for breaking that code. We can put a note > in > release notes for this is needed. But the risk of changing syntax parts on the > brink of GA IMHO is much larger than the risk of somebody using \int in 7.0.0 > and getting breakage in 7.0.1. Especially if it's clearly described as a bug > we > intend to fix. > that's my point as well. There is a clear documentation about type hints, usage of an undocumented way is out of scope of BC. Using \int means there were a "class int{}" which is prohibited. Of course it is a bug after all, which will be addressed.
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