Req #80354 [NEW]: allow casting to void (no-op)

From: divinity76 at gmail dot com Operating system: PHP version: Next Minor Version Package: Scripting Engine problem Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:allow casting to void (no-op) Description: ------------ i wish casting to void was legal, doing the same thing as casting to void in C: a no-op. (used to shut up linters about unused variables) there are some situations where you have to accept arguments that you don't use, or have to pass a variable by reference that you don't actually care about, and some linters may warn you about "this variable is declared but never used" or "this variable is written to but never read", for example CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION: the first argument is the curl handle and the 2nd argument is the header, some code only cares about the header, but have to accept the curl argument too just to match the CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION callback signature (in my experience, the handle argument is only useful when using the curl_multi api, and not useful when using the non-multi api) Test script: --------------- <?php $recieved_headers = []; $curlopts = array( CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION => function ($ch, string $header) use (&$recieved_headers): int { (void) $ch; $recieved_headers[] = $header; return strlen($header); } ); function f(&$val1, &$val2, &$val3) { // lets pretend this function writes to val1/val2/val3 } $data_i_need = null; $data_i_dont_need = null; f($data_i_need, $data_i_dont_need, $data_i_dont_need); (void)$data_i_dont_need; Expected result: ---------------- (blank) Actual result: -------------- Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '$ch' (T_VARIABLE) in /in/uWlu5 on line 5 Process exited with code 255. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80354&edit=1 -- Fix committed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=globals PHP version support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=phptooold Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=80354&r=mysqlcfg