On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > Hi everybody! > > If a type declaration inadvertently uses `boolean` or `integer` (instead > of `bool` and `int`, respectively), the error message is rather confusing: > > […] must be an instance of boolean, boolean given, […] > > This issue has been filed as <https://bugs.php.net/65656>, and Adam > submitted <https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/442> to fix that, but > David hinted at the potential BC break, and Joe closed the PR later > stating that such change would require an RFC. > > In my opinion, it would be sufficient to change the error message so > that the canonical name of the type would be used, i.e. `bool` and > `int`, respectively, so the message above would read: > > […] must be an instance of boolean, bool given, […]
Or why not: […] must be an instance of class boolean, boolean given, […] but I guess we then need to also use "trait" or "interface" as words there too. cheers, Derick
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