On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 4:15 PM Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote: > > For the long term good of the language I'd prefer type aliases (or typedefs > or usings or whatever you want to call them. > > use mixed = null|bool|int|float|string|array|object|resource; > use scalar = null|bool|int|float|string; > use number = int|float; > > That said, baking 'mixed' in as an implicit alias of the above isn't > problematic for that future.
The `scalar` example should be `bool|int|float|string`, without `null`. And for `mixed`, as already said, we cannot use `resource` in union types. All the more reason to standardize those "aliases" in core? -- Guilliam Xavier -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
