Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61467&edit=1
ID: 61467
Comment by: sorin dot badea91 at gmail dot com
Reported by: david at grudl dot com
Summary: New "callable" typehint does not work (autoloading)
Status: Not a bug
Type: Bug
Package: Class/Object related
PHP Version: 5.4.0
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
@nikic I don't think that the use case presented here a minority one. Callbacks
are often send as arguments. The current typehint functionality is completely
useless.
Previous Comments:
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[2012-12-07 19:18:13] nikic@php.net
@paladin / @honza: We certainly won't introduce another type hint just to cover some minority
use case. Type hints are there to simplify the most common type checks and
callability-without-actual-callability is certainly not one of the common cases. If you have special
needs you can always just do the manual is_callable call.
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[2012-12-07 11:19:16] honza at mujserver dot net
I agree with paladin, but I don't think that *callable* is useful.
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[2012-07-16 22:33:06] paladin at jstation dot cz
Hmm... I agree with David Grudl that current behavior is not ideal... so what
about two typehints? callback and callable?
function testA(callback $a)
{
//callback checks only syntax
}
function testB(callable $a)
{
//callable checks if it is really callable
}
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[2012-03-27 16:58:41] david at grudl dot com
1) "Yes, something other than a string was expected." Really? What exactly is expected?
When a string points to something that _is_ callable, then it is not a string?
call_user_func('xxx') triggers error 'expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback,
function 'xxx' not found or invalid function name' which is perfectly understandable.
Why the same function with typehint callable will not trigger the same error message? It will
trigger 'Argument 1 passed to call_user_funct() must be callable, string given', which
says that I shouldn't use the string. And that's not simply true.
2) I would totally agree with you, if PHP was static language. But PHP is dynamic language and it
makes sense to have stored in the variable name of class/function that has not yet been loaded. And
most importantly: the life cycle of PHP is a single HTTP request, lazy loading is very important for
good performance.
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[2012-03-24 23:41:57] jan at skrasek dot com
There is no logic to check is_callable by typehint - these typehint is useless, brings no new
functionality. The only one possibile benefit is just check validity of the callback structure, not
the callabality self.
> A callable isn't a basic type like a string.
So, this typehint behaves differently than others. Yeah, so you prefer to mix things together and
make php much more chaotic.
> This is what most users expect when they check if something is callable.
Some research available? Or just empty words?
From my point of view php is heading to hell by making these type of shortcuts. Yes, we are lazy
programmers, but there is no need to rewrite if (is_callable(..)) as a typehint.
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