On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Marcio Almada <marcio.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
The previous votes were discarded, yes. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
