Re: Strict type declarations not enforced for Reflection API invocation

Am 10.10.2017 um 18:53 schrieb Nikita Popov: > The problem are not internal function calls, the problem are callbacks. In > fact, the proposed fix does not actually fix the problem you encountered in > PHPUnit, as it is going to use the strictness mode at the reflection > call-site, not the strictness mode used by the file defining the data > provider. I was aware of that (I only saw the pull request but did not look at it), thanks for clarifying. > I believe that the proper way to fix this is to handle dynamic function > invocations differently from direct invocations. Direct invocations should > use the strictness level of the call-site, while dynamic invocations should > use the strictness level of the declaration-site. This means that the > internal array_map and a userland reimplementation will behave consistent. > It also means that PHPUnit will be able to respect the strictness level of > file defining the data provider, etc. I've seen a number of complaints > about our handling of callbacks wrt strict_types, so I think it's > worthwhile to at least consider making such a change. I think this makes sense. Is this something that can be achieved for PHP 7.2 or does it have to wait for PHP 7.3?