On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Zeev Suraski <[email protected]> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andrea Faulds [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 12:44 PM
>> To: Zeev Suraski
>> Cc: Jordi Boggiano; [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Scalar Type Hints
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > On 9 Feb 2015, at 03:48, Zeev Suraski <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > A - has pretty much everybody agreeing with is a good idea. Nobody
>> objects to it. It's under consensus.
>>
>> This isn't true. I've explained why it isn't true several times. Maybe
> you are
>> suffering from confirmation bias or something, but there is no such
>> "consensus". Quite a few internals contributors liked v0.1. Quite a few
> didn't.
>> I've gone and evidenced this before in replies sent directly to you.
>
> Andrea,
>
> I'll make an absolute last attempt to explain what I'm saying, after that
> we can agree to disagree. We probably interpret the same facts
> differently.
>
> Fact is, there were very few people who said that weak types are *bad*
> (although Sebastian seems to fall in that category). The vast majority of
> feedback that 'opposed' weak typing, didn't really oppose weak typing at
> all. What it opposed was, rather, the lack of introducing strict typing.
> That is clearly not the same thing, which is why the fact there were
> people who opposed v0.1 of the RFC does not equate with people opposing
> weak typing, not at all.
>
> Each and every person that voted in favor of the v0.3 RFC, voted in favor
> of weak typing. Weak typing is not only a key element of that RFC - it's
> even the default behavior. In addition to everyone who voted in favor of
> the v0.3 RFC, many - most probably most of the people who voted against
> it- are in favor of the weak typing API. If you combine the two groups,
> you're going to get to nearly 100% support, or arguably, 'lack of
> opposition', to the weak typing proposal.
Woah there Zeev, please take your words out of my mouth, and out of
the mouths of 48 other people.
I voted Yes for this RFC because default weak and optional strict is a
perfectly PHP-way™ to get this job done.
You really have to stop speaking for other people, or this
conversation is going to go off the rails for eternity. We can speak
for ourselves.