On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Josh Di Fabio <joshdifa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
Ignore me, I didn't read the example properly. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
