On Tue, Nov 12, 2024, at 10:43 AM, Claude Pache wrote: >> Le 12 nov. 2024 à 14:53, Gina P. Banyard <intern...@gpb.moe> a écrit : >> >> Hello internals, >> >> Ondřej Mirtes (author of PHPStan) remarked to me in August that Closure is >> not a subtype of callable. >> The implementation of this is quite straight forward and can be seen on >> GitHub. [1] >> The question is if there are any concern or not and if this requires an RFC >> or can just be merged as is. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Gina P. Banyard >> >> [1] https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/15492 > > > Hi Gina, > > That seems reasonable. > > But personally, I would be more interested in having a type equivalent > to `callable&object`, that is all objects that implement the > `__invoke()` magic method (this is a strict super-type of \Closure). > > —Claude
I am in favor of Closure being covarant to callable, and to a new pseudo-type for Closure|Object-with-__invoke. (Maybe Invokable?) I do think they'd require brief RFCs, but both would have my support. --Larry Garfield
