Re: [RFC][VOTE] Object typehint

On 10 November 2016 at 09:11, Niklas Keller <me@kelunik.com> wrote: > 2016-11-09 21:53 GMT+01:00 Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>: > > > On 09.11.2016 at 17:28, Joe Watkins wrote: > > > > > I want to explain why I voted no on this: > > > > > > I think it's significantly less useful without variance, variance > is > > > something that is usually difficult to achieve in PHP, but not for this > > > feature in particular. > > > > Can you please elaborate what you mean with variance? I see some > > practical use cases for covariance of a method with return type object, > > but I don't see how contravariance could be achieved for parameters of > > type object. > > > > If your suggestion is only about invariance of object return types, I'm > > not sure if this very special case would make sense (for consistency > > reasons). > > > > We already have it for iterable -> array. We would have it for all other > types if there wouldn't be an implementation issue. > > Regards, Niklas > > Cheers, > > Christoph > > > > > I absolutely want it, but I want it to be properly useful. > > > > > > If the RFC were halted and patched to include variance, I'd +1 it.. > > > > > > Cheers > > > Joe > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Michał Brzuchalski <michal@brzuchalski. > > .com> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> Hi everyone, > > >> > > >> Two weeks have passed since this RFC was put to discussion here. > > >> > > >> Therefore, I'm going to put it to a vote for inclusion in PHP 7.2. > > >> > > >> Voting starts today, 2016-11-06, and will close after two weeks on the > > >> Sunday 2016-11-20 at midnight. > > >> > > >> The RFC and voting widget can be found here: > > >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/object-typehint > The vote appears to be closed right now, did I miss an announcement? > > > >> > > >> It's a normal 2/3 majority required vote. > > >> > > >> Thanks! > > >> -- > > >> regards / pozdrawiam, > > >> -- > > >> Michał Brzuchalski > > >> about.me/brzuchal > > >> brzuchalski.com > > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > >