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To: Dan Ackroyd <danack@basereality.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] ReflectionParameter::getClassName()
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)


> On 1 Feb 2015, at 01:23, Dan Ackroyd <danack@basereality.com> wrote:
>=20
> On 31 January 2015 at 17:31, Philip Sturgeon <pjsturgeon@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com> =
wrote:
>>>=20
>>> 2) There's a tiny bit of overlap with "scalar type hints",
>>=20
>> 2) There might be some overlap in the scalar type hint stuff kinda,
>> but I'd like to think there isn't. getClassName() is just
>> getClass()->name
>=20
>=20
> I think Matteo's point is that if any scalar type RFC passes, a
> type-hint for a parameter would not always be the name of a class, so
> the method name 'getClassName()' would be misleading.
>=20
> It would be good to choose a better name to avoid that problem.

We already have that problem (array, callable).

I think the more important issue is the conflict with the =
ReflectionTypeAnnotation RFC, which proposes something similar to what =
was originally part of the Return Types RFC:

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reflectionparameter.typehint

Thanks.

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