On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Will Fitch <willfitch@php.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014, at 07:52 AM, Levi Morrison wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Lazare Inepologlou
> > <linepogl@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > 2014-04-24 17:59 GMT+02:00 Levi Morrison <levim@php.net>:
> > >
> > > My dear Internals friends,
> > >>
> > >> I have spent the last month drafting an RFC that allows return types:
> > >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/returntypehinting
> > >>
> > >> Notable items:
> > >> - Differences from past RFCs are summarized in the RFC:
> > >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/returntypehinting#differences_from_past_rfcs
> > >> - The patch includes basic opcache and reflection support. It also
> has
> > >> phpt tests.
> > >> - Informal performance tests indicate that the patch did not fubar
> > >> performance; if desired a more detailed test can be conducted before
> > >> voting.
> > >> - This RFC does not add, modify, or remove keywords at all; this
> notably
> > >> excludes type-hints for scalars. Supporting scalar type declarations
> is
> > >> outside the scope of this RFC; if you are interested in supporting
> scalar
> > >> type declarations please discuss it elsewhere.
> > >>
> > >> As a friendly reminder, everyone on this list is interested in
> developing
> > >> a
> > >> better PHP and the definitions of 'better' vary from person to person.
> > >> Please be civil and constructive while discussing this RFC. Thank you!
> > >>
> > >> Some thanks, regardless if the RFC is accepted:
> > >> - For providing a patch: Joe Watkins.
> > >> - For helping me iterate on RFC drafts: Bob Wienand, Nikita Popov
> and
> > >> Anthony Ferrara
> > >> - For previous RFCs on this topic: Felipe Pena and Will Fitch. I
> gleaned
> > >> valuable knowledge from your proposals and the discussion around them.
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > This is a nice and well thought proposal.
> > >
> > > I would like to suggest the addition of the "self" and "static"
> > > pseudo
> > > types. Most IDEs support this through @return syntax:
> > >
> > > class Foo {
> > > /** @return static */
> > > public function SetBar( $bar ) {
> > > // ...
> > > return $this;
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > With the new syntax, the above could be transformed into this:
> > >
> > > class Foo {
> > > public function SetBar( $bar ) : static {
> > > // ...
> > > return $this;
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> >
> > As the patch currently stands you can use the type-hint 'self'.
>
> How will this patch work with LSB?
>
Late static binding is not a feature I am very familiar with. After some
investigation it appears that we curently don't support late static binding
on parameters; this means that I will not support late static binding on
returns either. I want to keep the impact as small as possible.