Hi, It makes more sense to me too to change this behavior. I would rather go with null though ; but that is just personal preference ; empty string is already better than false ... Did you assess how widely it is used before the users come back "angry" ?
Cheers. On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 at 11:39, Gina P. Banyard <intern...@gpb.moe> wrote: > Hello internals, > > While working on the deprecation to/from bool type juggling in functions > RFC and seeing the impact within Symfony, we found a common slightly > annoying case. > The getDocComment method of various Reflection classes was always used as > a string, and we thought changing the behaviour in PHP made more sense. > > I submitted a PR [1] but was asked to gather feedback on the mailing list. > > Please let me know what you think. > > Best regards, > > Gina P. Banyard > > [1] https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/18928 >
