> My largest concern is that this proposal substantially overlaps with the 
> reified generics RFC, which is being held until after the current code freeze 
> in late August or early September at the earliest.
>
> In particular, both proposals need to answer many of the same questions 
> around parameterized types, variance, Reflection, runtime enforcement, 
> inference, and type identity. I think we should avoid committing PHP to a 
> separate set of array-specific rules before the broader generics proposal has 
> been discussed. Otherwise, we risk either constraining the generics design or 
> ending up with two parameterization models that behave differently.

plus: we may need to use turbofish syntax like `array::<int, Product>`
to avoid issues with the parser.

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