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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Types on the right or on the left
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

>> Except `static function()` and `static function foo()` already have
>> meaning, and if we allowed static return types (very possible) that
>> would be ambiguous. This syntax is a no-go.
>
> If it is possible, why it's not the part of the RFC? Probably because
> there's not much place where it would make sense. So, the only
> objections so far have been:
>
<snip>
> 3. We could somehow in some undefined time in the future allow static
> there, even though we're designing it right now and we actually *do not*
> allow it and see no reason to allow it.
<snip>

You seem to be under the assumption that I have designed this as THE
RFC for return types, and there will be no others. Quite the contrary:
it has been designed to be incredibly minimal, and has taken into
consideration possible expansions and allowed for them to work. Other
examples not already included are generics and function`