> > Am 24.12.2017 um 15:34 schrieb Fleshgrinder: > > I prepared a PR to add the `scalar` pseudo-type to PHP after the > > discussions around adding a `mixed` pseudo-type. I strongly believe that > > it makes sense to provide the most common primitive union types with > > handy aliases even if we are going to add union types in the future to > PHP. > > Thank you, Richard, for working on this. > > I spent a lot of time this year introducing scalar type declarations into > existing code bases. In quite a few cases I was not able to do so because > the existing code works with parameters that can be of two or more scalar > types. With PHP 7.2, I can only document this outside of the code using > @param annotations (until the code has been refactored to work with only > one parameter type). > > With a "scalar" type declaration I would not have to fall back to @param > annotations and could express the type in actual syntax. >
If you want just two of those and not all, you'd still have to use PHPdoc for those? IIRC you voted against union types, which would be a better fit in that case? Regards, Niklas >
