Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)

From: Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:13:51 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)
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On 14 Jul 2014, at 18:11, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:

> Since we are looking at doing this what good reason is there for not adopting
> the syntax & some of the semantics of Hack ?
> 
>    http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.annotations.php
> 
> NIH is not a good reason.
> 
> NIH = Not Invented Here

We are using hack’s syntax (int, float, bool, string, no integer/double/boolean aliases). We are
not using Hack’s semantics for reasons that have been discussed endlessly before in this thread
and others, reasons which are not NIH.

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Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/

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