Re: Re: Return Type Declarations

On 24 April 2014 11:04, Daniel Lowrey <rdlowrey@php.net> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 09:59:19AM -0600, Levi Morrison wrote: > >>> - This RFC does not add, modify, or remove keywords at all; this notably >>> excludes type-hints for scalars. Supporting scalar type declarations is >>> outside the scope of this RFC; if you are interested in supporting scalar >>> type declarations please discuss it elsewhere. > > Addressing scalar return hints in this proposal would be foolish without > also introducing scalar parameter typing. Beyond that, addressing scalars > would almost certainly doom the RFC to rejection as scalar typing is like > the Vietnam of php-src ;) Maybe the Korea — there are still two sides, years after the war, and occasional skirmishes. I'd say Unicode was our Vietnam. :) > At first glance this looks to me like a workable solution precisely because > it allows progress while avoiding the scalar quagmire. Same. I haven't looked at the patch yet, but I like how clean (and limited in scope) this is. Levi, what's the syntax like for closures with use blocks? I can see that looking a bit weird either way, since it's presumably either: function ($foo): Bar use ($quux) {} or: function ($foo) use ($quux): Bar {} Neither are exactly ideal, but that's the hand we've dealt ourselves, I guess. Adam