Hello everyone, I have completed the draft for an RFC, to add Typed Properties. The patch has been written by the one and only Joe Watkins.
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typed-properties I would really appreciate constructive feedback on this RFC, with a few areas especially: 1. How scared are we that integers can be expanded to floats on runtime? 2. This whole temporary nullability situation, where unset properties will error on attempted usage if not set. Should they instead error after the constructor has been called if they are still not holding a value? 3. Weak vs Strict. Right now this is entirely strict, with no declare() to change mode. Reasons for this vary, from various sources, but include "Not sure how to implement it" and "Well people should not be using properties as part of their public API". Help on 3 would be appreciated. Also let's please avoid "PHP IS TURNING INTO JAVA" and the other rather common rhetoric. Strict Type Hinting might have been seen as a battleground for fans of strict and fans of weak to fight through a keyboard, but this RFC will not be the repeat. We'll have a nice, orderly, constructive conversation about this RFC, and improve the patch as you all provide feedback. Let me know what you think folks! -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
