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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [Discussion] Callable types via Interfaces
From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023, at 7:10 PM, Deleu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 2:25=E2=80=AFPM Larry Garfield <larry@garfield=
tech.com>
> wrote:
>
>> But that runs quickly into the problem of verbosity, reusability, and=
 type
>> aliases, and the discussion usually dies there.
>>
>
> Just out of curiosity, was there ever a discussion thread dedicated for
> Type aliases?  I couldn't find it on externals.io and I was curious to=
 know
> what are the challenges there since a lot of time and effort seem to h=
ave
> been put on trying to sidestep it.

Not that I recall, on list.  There has been discussion on and off in var=
ious chat rooms over the last 3-ish years.  The general pattern seems to=
 be "that would be cool and useful!  But how do we define them, and how =
does autoloading work for something that's a one liner?"  And since no o=
ne has a good answer for that, it kinda dies there.

I wouldn't expect a formal discussion thread on it until someone has a s=
olid proposal that addresses those questions that they want to run up th=
e flag pole.  (Not that I think that's a good process, but that's how th=
ings work right now, mostly.)

--Larry Garfield