On: Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

[wvenable]

PHP is based on C. It's way more consistent with C, Java, C# , etc to do the former. So the real question is why

    function foobar() : int { .. }

instead of

    function int foobar() { .. }

[amenghra → wvenable]

1. function foobar() makes it easier to grep for. 2. if I recall correctly, it made some parts of the grammar easier.

[wambotron → wvenable]

Yeah, you could go either way on it really. It seems weird to mix them, though!