Am 24.12.2017 um 15:34 schrieb Fleshgrinder: > I prepared a PR to add the `scalar` pseudo-type to PHP after the > discussions around adding a `mixed` pseudo-type. I strongly believe that > it makes sense to provide the most common primitive union types with > handy aliases even if we are going to add union types in the future to PHP.
Thank you, Richard, for working on this. I spent a lot of time this year introducing scalar type declarations into existing code bases. In quite a few cases I was not able to do so because the existing code works with parameters that can be of two or more scalar types. With PHP 7.2, I can only document this outside of the code using @param annotations (until the code has been refactored to work with only one parameter type). With a "scalar" type declaration I would not have to fall back to @param annotations and could express the type in actual syntax. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
