Hi Matthew > Ondřej Mirtes and I present an RFC for the noreturn type: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/noreturn_type > > The feature already exists in Hack (the primary inspiration) and is > currently supported by our static analysis tools inside docblocks, and we > feel there's a good argument for it to be supported by PHP itself.
Thanks for the RFC! I'm very much in support of it. Two small things: 1. Some magic methods like __toString currently require a specific return type (like string in that case). Since noreturn is a bottom type technically it should be possible to type hint those magic methods with noreturn. It's not a big issue if that's not possible, but it should be mentioned in the RFC. 2. noreturn is one of the few return types that would technically make sense for __construct (other than void). class Foo { public function __construct(): noreturn { throw new Exception(); } } new Foo(); bar(); // < Dead code Not sure this is worth supporting but I just wanted to mention it. Ilija -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php