Re: [RFC] Typed array declarations

On 17 July 2026 14:20:42 BST, Wendell Adriel <wendelladriel.ti@gmail.com> wrote: >Yeah, I think that we have two paths from here: > >1. Doing only Implementation Level 1 for this RFC, it's simple enough to be >on PHP 8.7 IMO, and then deferring Level 2 and 3 to a new RFC after the >generics design. >2. Defer the whole RFC after the generics design and aim for Implementation >Level 2 or 3 (3 as preferred one). Your "level 1" sounds similar in spirit to the "bound-erased generics" RFC which was just declined: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/bound_erased_generic_types Reserving the syntax without directly enforcing it was not popular, and could actually make it *harder* to add an enforced version later, because you'd be changing the behaviour of existing code. I think this is one of those cases where just talking about the abstract design doesn't get us very far without a concrete plan of implementation - there's plenty of support for the feature *in theory*, but the reason it hasn't happened is that it's really hard to do well within PHP's runtime type model. Regards, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]