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On Saturday, July 27, 2013 11:11:05 AM UTC-6, Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=EAne) w=
rote:
> Le Sat, 27 Jul 2013 17:49:17 +0200, Shark8=20
>=20
>=20
> > 5. Generics -- I had to write the same function again and again =20
> > (slightly different because of the 'types' coming in) when using PHP; =
=20
> > that system would have been a lot nicer and more stable if PHP had =20
> > generics.
>=20
> I won't go so far: it would have been a lot nicer if it had types and =20
> signatures and real modules and static consistency check for all of this.=
 =20
> It has none of these basic things (there is not even a real kind of =20
> phplint to help).

6, 7, and 8 address all of those, and they are honestly needed for a sane g=
eneric-system. (Otherwise all you're doing is text-expansion macros and tho=
se can be very dangerous, esp. if you pass in an evaluated expression as a =
parameter.)