Re: [VOTE] [RFC] Bound-Erased Generic Types

> On Jun 14, 2026, at 4:07 pm, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > OTOH, generics getting voted down (for whatever reason) would be... very bad press, both within > the community and externally. I think you’re overstating the external impact. This would have been bad PR a decade ago, but today PHP language evolution is not front of mind for many outside the PHP community. I believe (from discussions in the list and online) that most of the people who voted it down have done so due to a very clear philosophical objection to partially-erased types. Those people do not want the biggest potential follow-on from this RFC, which is language support for erased generic array<string>, a construct which has existed in docblocks for a couple of decades. I think it’s useful to have these decisions written in stone. I don’t believe there’s a better proposal for erased generics than this one. In the future, when someone asks why PHP doesn’t have erased generics, we can point to this vote. Best wishes, Matt