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Subject: Union types | true pseudo-type
From: benjamin.morel@gmail.com (Benjamin Morel)

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Hi internals,

I'd like to bring back the topic of supporting "true" as a type in PHP 8
union types.
Now that the RFC <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/union_types_v2> has been
successfully voted, I'd like to revive the discussion about adding the
"true" pseudo-type in addition to "false".

In addition to my Packagist survey
<https://externals.io/message/106844#107304>, I'd like to point out that I
just came across a native method in the SSH2 extension, that does use true
as a type:

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ssh2-auth-none.php


Returns TRUE if the server does accept "none" as an authentication method,
> or an array of accepted authentication methods on failure.



Of course, you could type-hint it array|bool, but the same could be said
for |false.

Thoughts?

=E2=80=94 Benjamin

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