On Sun, 2016-03-06 at 14:29 -0600, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016, at 05:17 AM, Tim Streater wrote: > > Strict typing is something languages should be moving away from. As fast > > as possible. -1 > Except that the trend of late has been back toward explicit typing, > because explicit types are incredibly useful for managing medium to > large code bases. +1 > Duck typing doesn't scale to large code bases well, > even though it simplifies many tasks for smaller code bases or for > investigatory code. +1 > There's only 70 years of computer science research > saying that explicit types are incredibly useful in a wide variety of > situations. +1 -- Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
