Hi Levi, It's nice to see this RFC in voting phase again so quickly :) I just have one question. Since we had some changes in the implementation will the previous votes be discarded?
2015-01-14 6:18 GMT-03:00 Levi Morrison <le...@php.net>: > Dear Internals, > > I have moved the Return Types RFC[1] into voting phase. A few changes > have happened since it was originally announced but have been covered > by discussion. > > Return types are now invariant. This means a sub-type must declare the > same return type as its super-type's method when overriding it. > Aliases such as self and parent must resolve to the same type. > > Also note that picking invariance now does not mean we can't support > covariance later. This decision was a trade-off of my time and the > projected timeline for PHP 7. I was not confident I could produce an > excellent design and implementation in time for PHP 7 if I chose > covariance instead. > > There is no reflection support for return types; another RFC[2] will > handle this. > > Dmitry updated a sizeable chunk of the implementation[3] to work on > much more recent master branch. Thanks, Dmitry. I have updated it to > work on the latest master version as of the time of this writing and > altered one or two things to bring it into line with the RFC. > > The voting period will end during the evening of 2015-01-23 in UTC-7. > This period is around ten days, which I hope is enough time for > everyone to be able to vote. > > [1]: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/return_types#vote > [2]: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reflectionparameter.typehint > [3]: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/997 > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
