On Thu, Apr 20, 2023, at 7:10 PM, Deleu wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 2:25 PM Larry Garfield <la...@garfieldtech.com> > wrote: > >> But that runs quickly into the problem of verbosity, reusability, and type >> aliases, and the discussion usually dies there. >> > > Just out of curiosity, was there ever a discussion thread dedicated for > Type aliases? I couldn't find it on externals.io and I was curious to know > what are the challenges there since a lot of time and effort seem to have > been put on trying to sidestep it.
Not that I recall, on list. There has been discussion on and off in various chat rooms over the last 3-ish years. The general pattern seems to be "that would be cool and useful! But how do we define them, and how does autoloading work for something that's a one liner?" And since no one has a good answer for that, it kinda dies there. I wouldn't expect a formal discussion thread on it until someone has a solid proposal that addresses those questions that they want to run up the flag pole. (Not that I think that's a good process, but that's how things work right now, mostly.) --Larry Garfield -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
