Re: return/parameter types for magic functions

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > Since we now allow defining return value types for functions, one can > also create definition for magic functions that make no sense, such as > __toString() : float or __isset() : Closure. I think we should restrict > such definitions - either to types that makes sense or in case of > methods that aren't supposed to return anything useful, completely. We > already do this for ctors, dtors and __clone but not consistently for > other magics. Also some values for parameter types make no sense. My original patch for return types did not allow return types for ctors, dtors, and __clone. It seems you did not preserve this? In any case no RFC is needed because this was outlined in the RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/return_types#methods_which_cannot_declare_return_types The only one that should allow anything for now is __toString which would be permitted to declare a return type of string.