On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:42 PM Nikita Popov wrote:
> Hi internals,
>
> I would like to propose the following RFC, which allows using "static" as
> a return type:
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/static_return_type
>
> While I'm personally not a fan of late static binding, we do support it
> and people do use it quite heavily, so I think we should also support it in
> return types.
>
> Regards,
> Nikita
>
Heads up: I plan to start voting on this RFC tomorrow.
I think most of the discussion here has been around the "$this" type
mentioned in future scope, but no particular concerns with "static" itself
have been raised. (I don't plan to include $this as part of this RFC.)
Regards,
Nikita