On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:42 PM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi internals, > > I would like to propose the following RFC, which allows using "static" as > a return type: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/static_return_type > > While I'm personally not a fan of late static binding, we do support it > and people do use it quite heavily, so I think we should also support it in > return types. > > Regards, > Nikita > Heads up: I plan to start voting on this RFC tomorrow. I think most of the discussion here has been around the "$this" type mentioned in future scope, but no particular concerns with "static" itself have been raised. (I don't plan to include $this as part of this RFC.) Regards, Nikita