Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Literal Scalar Types

On 15.06.26 06:53, Ben Ramsey wrote:

On 6/14/26 20:22, Seifeddine Gmati wrote:

Hello Internals, I'd like to start the discussion on a new RFC adding literal scalar types to PHP. - RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/literal_scalar_types - Implementation: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/22314 Thanks, Seifeddine.

I think I'm okay with this. David mentioned enums, and I do think enums are useful in many places where you want types like this, but there's a simplicity in this that I can't deny, and I like it.

I do like the simplicity of this. But - especially for floats and ints - the next level would be to allow not only

public function check(int -1|0|1 $minusOneThroughOne)

but also something like

public function check(int -1..1 $minusOneThrougOne)

which would then also allow

public function check (int 1..PHP_INT_MAX $positiveInt)

would that also be something to be considered? It seems like a logical alternate option to not have to add every value literally to the option list... Cheers Andreas -- ,,, (o o) +---------------------------------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-+ | Andreas Heigl | | mailto:andreas@heigl.org N 50°22'59.5" E 08°23'58" | | https://andreas.heigl.org | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | https://hei.gl/appointmentwithandreas | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GPG-Key: https://hei.gl/keyandreasheiglorg | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+

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