On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:30:43AM -0300, Martin Scotta wrote:
> Hey All,
> I'm really interested on this topic.
> 
> What would be the result of this?
> 
> function Foo foo($something) {
>      if ( $something ) {
>           return new Foo;
>      }
>      // no return implies return null
> }
> 
> How do you force to return a Type with null allowed?

That is why I suggested, in addition to the above, a syntax like:

    function (Foo | NULL) foo($something) {

to be able to specify where a function can return more than one type.
The 'extra' types/values are nearly always either NULL or FALSE.

Regards

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