Hi Ben
Ben Scholzen 'DASPRiD' wrote:
Hi guys,
I just poked up an RFC and a patch for resource typehints and return
types. I'd really like to hear your thoughts about it!
RFC:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/resource_typehint
Patch:
https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1631
Anthony's Scalar Type Hinting with Cast RFC originally had a resource
type hint, but it was later removed, and subsequent RFCs have followed
its lead in not including a resource typehint.
The reason for this is that the resource type is an anachronism from an
age in which PHP did not have objects, yet still needed to make certain
types of data opaque. The resource type is a type that exists only to
shuffle around C pointers between internal functions. It has no semantic
value. Because resources are now redundant, given the existence of
objects, their time is running out, and they will be replaced at some
point. Adding a type declaration for resource would mean that code using
it would break if we replace any existing usage of resources with
objects, preventing migration away from resource.
So, I'm against this RFC.
Thanks.
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Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/
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