Re: [RFC][Discussion] Harmonise "untyped" and "typed" properties

From: Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:02:29 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC][Discussion] Harmonise "untyped" and "typed" properties
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> Le 17 nov. 2023 à 14:53, Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> a écrit : > > On 17 November 2023 13:30:42 GMT, Claude Pache <claude.pache@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Yes, except that an untyped (respectively mixed) property >> cannot be redeclared as mixed (resp. untyped) in a subclass. A small >> step in the right direction is to allow that. > > Huh, I didn't know that. I'll add it to the RFC, at least to consider. > > The RFC to add "mixed" gives an example of removing the type as invariance, but > doesn't seem to justify why "untyped" and "mixed" should be considered > different, from a type system point of view. > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mixed_type_v2 Note that untyped is different from mixed in the case of return values of functions: in that context, untyped is equivalent to mixed|void. In all other contexts, untyped and mixed are effectively equivalent, because void is void of sense. —Claude

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