Union Class Types (was Union Type (singular) straw man proposal)

Hi Côme, > This example is really confusing me more than anything else. Thank you very much for your feedback. You illustrated perfectly why I should not have produced that proposal in haste. Your confusion was due to my first draft errors, which thanks to your feedback I have hopefully had a chance to correct. I effectively rewrote and extended the proposal which you should be able to find at the same URL: https://gist.github.com/mikeschinkel/50aec7094f5643223d28674639f9f117 <https://gist.github.com/mikeschinkel/50aec7094f5643223d28674639f9f117> I would be greatly appreciative if you could give is a second look. > All in all I do not understand the benefits of this approach compared to Nikita’s RFC. I have moved the benefits to the beginning of the document and expanded the list I elaborate on. Hopefully they will be clear now? -Mike Schinkel P.S. Someone graciously emailed me off list and mentioned that my comments regarding Nikitia sounded like a criticism. If anyone else thought the same — and especially Nikita — please understand I was attempting to praise him but trying to do so in a humorous manner. As the person who emailed me made me realize, sometimes my humor may not translate via a mailing list and especially not for those who are not native English speakers. So I will do my best to avoid using humor on the list in the future. To be clear, I am in awe of Nikita and both his abilities and efforts to benefit the PHP community and greatly appreciate his efforts. I hope that clarifies my earlier intent. > On Sep 5, 2019, at 4:51 AM, Côme Chilliet wrote: > > Why does the class Number in the example has a $number property and use > $this->number->value() rather than $this->value() ? > > What is the difference between its getNumber method and its value method? > > Is $this->number and $this->number->number pointing the same object or is > $this->number->number NULL? > > This example is really confusing me more than anything else. > > The "function showNumber" example is using $this->number instead of $number I > think. > > All in all I do not understand the benefits of this approach compared to Nikita’s RFC. > What does this allow you to do that you cannot do without? > > Côme