Posted by Andy Hassall on 05/24/05 01:52

On 23 May 2005 15:33:58 -0700, dterrors@hotmail.com wrote:

>Will php 6 do strong typing and/or namespaces?

AFAIK there's no decided feature set for PHP 6 yet.

>I was shocked to find out today that there are some people who actually
>argue that weak typing is somehow better. I didn't even know there was
>a debate. Shocking. That's like arguing that square tires are better
>than round.
>
>Anyway if anyone knows that php is going to intentionally stay weak in
>the future let me know so I can jump ship, thanks,

If PHP ever went strongly typed it would be a fundamental change to the
language. It's not at all likely to happen IMHO. (You probably want to stay
away from Perl as well).

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