On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Rasmus Schultz <ras...@mindplay.dk> wrote: > Hello internals, > > I'd like to introduce an RFC proposing the addition of generic types > and functions: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generics > > Ben Scholzen started this RFC as a quick draft with a few code samples > in August last year, and I have since then worked with Dominic and > Ben towards a more complete, detailed RFC. > > There are a few holes still, which is why it hasn't moved from Draft > to Under Discussion yet, but we feel that it's complete enough that > we can start a discussion about this feature and try to iron out > the remaining details. > > The RFC was previously "unofficially" announced on reddit - this > thread generated some good questions and may answer some of the > most immediate questions: > > https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/3zx8qs/php_rfcgenerics_update_03_please_comment/ > > One of the most common criticisms we've heard, is that the syntax > would be hard to implement, a few have said "impossible" - but we feel > that, if generics are introduced, it's important that the syntax and > features be as familiar as possible to developers who are experienced > with other mainstream web industry languages, such as C# and Java. > > To that end, Dominic Grostate has worked through most of the tokenizer/parser > issues - save for one very exotic edge case, his fork demonstrates that the > proposed syntax can be parsed: > > https://github.com/orolyn/php-src/commits/generics > > Note that this fork is by no means an implementation of generics - it is proof > of concept as far as being able to parse the syntax. > > We're hoping to find someone, with more experience working on the php > codebase, > who is willing to collaborate on further implementation - and we do also have > a partial test-suite, defining the big picture expectations for most of the > proposed language features: > > https://github.com/orolyn/php-src/tree/generics-tests/Zend/tests/generics > > We look forward to your comments, questions and (I'm sure) criticisms of > this proposal! > > Thank You, > > Regards, > Rasmus Schultz > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >
Nice work. I think you there's a typo in one of your examples: write(new Entry<int, int>(1, 2)); // throws a TypeError Presumably this should be <int, string> or something similar? -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
