> > See https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2136 >> > > I don't like this. >
I understand, really. I do have to deal with BC on Symfony side also and it's a really hard constraint. Yet, we stick to it as much as possible, in order to not add pain to others. Sometime, we have to be pragmatic and accept solutions that are not "pure", for the shake of our BC promise. PHP internals has such a BC policy, it should really stick to it. It's not always fun, for sure, but the pain for others it strong. It's not only me&Ocramius, nor Symfony&Zend: everybody not following internals to adapt to latest BC breaks will be hit, potentially. This is bad for the reputation of PHP. It makes the PHP platform unstable as far as confidence is concerned. In this case, we should find a technical solution that preserves BC. Being this patch or unconditionally returning the type name with nullable info is fine, you'll decide what's best. But please don't consider BC as something that one can bypass when it gets annoying. Thanks from me and from many others for considering :) Nicolas
