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This makes me wonder if this has happened before in another language. I can totally imagine 10 years ago someone saying "oh we'll never need that in PHP" and vo
by isuckatcoding 10y ago
This makes me wonder if this has happened before in another language. I can totally imagine 10 years ago someone saying "oh we'll never need that in PHP" and voila 10 years later you've now got feature X in PHP. Any of you wise old timers want to share such examples? Does history keep repeating itself with these sorts of things?
- kqr 10y agoGenerics in Java? Anonymous functions in Java? Most everything in Java?
- isuckatcoding 10y agoI guess I was think of the community mentality and how it evolves as well.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoPHP now has optional strict type checking for non-complex types, since last year. That was a huge change: https://ajf.me/talks/2015-10-03-better-late-than-never-scalar-type-hints-in-php-7 https://ajf.me/talks/2015-10-03-better-late-than-never-scala...