On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 2:35 PM Niklas Keller <m...@kelunik.com> wrote:
> Hi Nikita, > > while this is a rather small change, it has quite some BC impact, as > not all old code has been adjusted to run on PHP 7.1+ only using > nullable types. > > I'd like to see an RFC with a vote for this. > > Regards, > Niklas > I was interested in seeing how prevalent this pattern, is, so I ran some analysis on the top 2k composer packages. I found 527 signatures that would throw a deprecation warning with this change. Of these 187 are potentially used as "poor man's nullable types" (the optional argument has both a type and a null default), while the other 340 are definite bugs. Regards, Nikita
