Re: [RFC] get_debug_type
| From: | Nikita Popov | Date: | Sat, 15 Feb 2020 15:07:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] get_debug_type | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 3:33 PM Mark Randall <markyr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I offer a short RFC to add a new function, get_debug_type, which would
> return the type name of a variable, automatically resolving the class
> name in the event of it being an object.
>
> Unlike gettype, this function will return the true name of scalar
> types, rather than their aliases, thus get_debug_type will return
> "int" rather than "integer" etc.
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/get_debug_type
>
> Mark Randall
> marandall@php.net
>
Can you please add some examples for the behavior? Preferably the precise
output for all primitive types, for classes and for anonymous classes.
Regards,
Nikita