Today was the feature freeze for PHP 7. That means no new votes can be started for a feature that is aimed at PHP 7.0, and would instead have to go into PHP 7.1. Instead of heading out to St Patrick's Day with a bunch of New Yorkers making dubious claims about their tenuous connection to Irish ancestry as an excuse to drink, I thought it would be a good time to review some of the more recent RFCs

Author: Anthony Ferrara ircmaxell@php.net (original Andrea Faulds, ajf@ajf.me) This RFC proposes the addition of four new type declarations for scalar types: int, float, string and bool. These type declarations would behave identically to the existing mechanisms that built-in PHP functions use. This RFC further proposes the addition of a new optional per-file directive, declare(strict_types=1);, w