On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 5:37 AM Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > As the person who initially proposed and implemented strict_types, I > think this is heading in the wrong direction. Perhaps that directive was > a mistake, if it will lead to so many attempts inspired by it to > fragment the language, including this one. Personally, I don't actually > want a language like C++ or Java. PHP's flexibility is great, and I > think splitting the language means going in a direction where you are > forced to have everything be strict or nothing be. PHP++ sounds like > Hack, but in mainline. I think it'll end up a mess in the long term. >
Yes, I would suspect it would get a bit weird having a AnythingGoes vs. NothingGoes barrier in the code like that. Forcing a balance, even if sometimes the arguments get rather heated (and they were just as heated, if not more so 20+ years ago), keeps everyone on the same page and working on the same code-base without the us vs. them situation that is bound to creep in. -Rasmus
