Re: Introducing "Array Of" RFC

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Lazare Inepologlou <linepogl@gmail.com>wrote: > 2014/1/15 Philip Sturgeon <pjsturgeon@gmail.com> > > > Hey, > > > > This is my first RFC so give me a little leeway if I get things wrong. > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/arrayof > > > > The implementation has been written by Joe Watkins, and I will be > > handling the RFC process for him. > > > > It is aimed at PHP 5.6, and so far the release managers seem to be ok > > with the idea of this potentially being merged after the alpha > > release, so this should not be considered an issue. > > > > Everything is open for discussion, especially the current error > > messages. They are not perfect, so let us know if you have better > > ideas. > > > > > Hello, > > this is a nice proposal. > > I hope that it is not limited to arrays only... All tranversables should be > acceptable (as they are acceptable for variadiac functions). Otherwise this > will lead to unnecessary (and costly) convertions. > An array is not just traversable - it is also array accessible and countable, as well as passable-to-array-functions. Allowing to pass Traversables to an array typehint violates the type constraint. Nikita