Re: return/parameter types for magic functions

From: Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 22:36:59 +0000
Subject: Re: return/parameter types for magic functions
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On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: >> 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. > > My apologies; I misread Dmitry's original statement. Disregard my message. s/Dmitry/Stas/; seems I shouldn't post anything today; sorry for all the mistakes and noise.

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