On Wed, Mar 23, 2022, at 1:54 PM, Mark Niebergall wrote: > Hello All, > > In June 2020, Benas Seliuginas emailed this list ( > https://externals.io/message/110755#110755) to gauge interest in typed > constants. An RFC (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typed_class_constants) was > started and had an accompanying PR (https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5815). > At the time, Nikita Popov supported it for overall language consistency, > and Sebastian Bergmann +1'd it for overall language consistency as well. > The PR has since been closed without being merged, and the idea hasn't > progressed since. > > I'd like to revisit the concept, gauge current interest, and pick the > concept and work back up. Any more discussion items for or against the idea? > > I'm willing to do the work to pick it up where it was left off and get an > RFC proposed through the normal process, and a working PR. This is my first > foray into the PHP RFC process, and C code is not my forte, but I'll take > it on. If anyone would be willing to pair/mentor/co-author with me, please > let me know. Either way, I'll plan to work on it. > > This is the first of several concepts I have been tinkering with and seeing > practical uses for. The next phase of work with different RFC would take > this further with const inheritance, where const type must match. > > - Mark
Is there a benefit to it other than "well everything else has types now, so..."? Even if it's esoteric, like in reflection-based meta programming? (I've been dabbling too much in that lately. :-) ) "Everything else does" isn't a compelling argument for me, but there may be others I'm not thinking of. --Larry Garfield -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
