>
> You can always serialize things however you want. Using `serialize()`
> is just a convenience – there is absolutely nothing that prevents you
> from using a custom serialization routine. Note that while Java has
> built in serialization it is often not used, and instead libraries
> like Google'
>
> I had this RFC in draft since some time, but delayed it due to all the
> ongoing PHP 7 discussions. Also we have no master branch to merge features
> in until 5.4 EOL. Thus I'm reviving this now.
>
> Time for the first RFC targeting PHP 7.1 (assuming PHP 8 isn't going to be
> the next version ;
>
> We could
> also consider going for ‘lax’ or ‘lenient’ as the opposite of ‘strict’,
> although I think we can easily do without introducing a new word into the
> vocabulary here.
>
>From an user perspective, I'd suggest that "lax" would potentially carry
more negative connotations than "weak."
>
>
> What do you guys think?
>
Has the ship not already sailed on this one? The php.net web site (
http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.typehinting.php), and userland
developers, have been calling them type hints for years now, I'd imagine
whatever new name comes up will largely be ignored outs
Well said, Florin. :)
I'm not a core contributor, I never have been and probably never will be as
I don't know C... but I do follow internals quite keenly. It strikes me
that the biggest problem here is that there's no one entity to decide the
rules of the road, so everything (including the rules
> > http://feather.perl6.nl/syn/S03.html#line_516
> >
> > Specifically: decrementing 'AAA' would not turn into 'ZZ' but would
> error,
> > according to that link
> >
>
> Carry handle of decrements is more complex than increments.
> It may be the reason.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Yasuo Ohgaki
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>
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applications as these modules behave a little different regarding return
> values etc..
>
> Greetings,
>
> Pierre
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> That's what Ralf and I suggested all along. By the way, the problem is
> that most of the web developers don't know anything about IT. I guess
> most of them use Windows (and you can't expect a Windows user to
> compile stuff), and the majority of the other half uses Ubuntu and
> never even saw t
6, but providing a legacy
extension/compile time option, which would bring with it almost complete
backwards compatibility with PHP 5.
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