Hello George On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 01:28, G. P. B. <george.bany...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 18:44, Gabriel Caruso <carusogabrie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello Internals, >> >> I have a PR proposing to start checking the signatures for PHP magic >> methods in the next major version of PHP: >> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/4177. The idea for this PR came from >> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69718. >> >> I'd like to hear your opinion before putting more effort into this :) >> >> Best regards. >> > > Hello Gabriel, > > I do like the idea, but I would agree that I'd want void as the return > type instead of a no return compile error. > Other than that +1 from my side. > The reason why I didn't want to go with `__construct(): void`, for example, is because some articles that I've read say that Constructors and Destructors do not return anything: - https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/php-constructors-and-destructors/ - https://docs.phpdoc.org/references/phpdoc/tags/return.html - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11904255/constructor-returning-value Also, the community has pushing this standard, as it can be seen in https://github.com/slevomat/coding-standard#slevomatcodingstandardtypehintsreturntypehint- . Best regards, > > Best regards > > George P. Banyard >
