Re: [RFC] Mixed type

Hey Dan, On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 13:18 Dan Ackroyd <Danack@basereality.com> wrote: > Hi Internals, > > Here is an RFC for adding a 'mixed' type to the language: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mixed_type_v2 > The RFC builds on an earlier draft by Michael Moravec. > > Part of the motivation for pursuing this RFC was my recent experience > in upgrading an application to PHP 7.4. > > Being able to add types to the application made the code much easier > to reason about, but there were places where I couldn't add type info > due to the lack of mixed. That made it hard to see if that piece of > code had been upgraded (but type info couldn't be added), or if that > code still needed to be upgraded. > How much would you like/be adverse to a rector rule that changes mixed into a long union type (without resource in it)? Considering above posts, mixed is effectively null|bool|string|int|float|array|object, and that the language has the ability to use this type in 8.0, I think making mixed very painful to write may be a big advantage. resource is still a massive PITA: not sure if it can be removed within the decade. Heck, we may even deprecate signature-less parameters and return types in a very far future 💪 >