Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:86307 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 56982 invoked from network); 19 May 2015 16:09:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 May 2015 16:09:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=julienpauli@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=julienpauli@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.212.178 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: julienpauli@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.212.178 mail-wi0-f178.google.com Received: from [209.85.212.178] ([209.85.212.178:33283] helo=mail-wi0-f178.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 43/FA-13816-0506B555 for ; Tue, 19 May 2015 12:09:52 -0400 Received: by wicmx19 with SMTP id mx19so122598179wic.0 for ; Tue, 19 May 2015 09:09:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=iASZYRt/ZKOMmFKlwmFaIKStgp8/8zRGvvfUQ7Zu+G0=; b=cPd/5+qfHhHNdWkZVAxUO8zd2nCsD55U9d22WdVcox5BwemPVS4IWxXZbm2JctRwd0 +EdMFAiwK7imdHUXVorvjEGNYPlUJumxGE6ou/zIHPsjTBn1PgWPgGbO4iBW6cyciqHM L/qQ4gKiVt+C7zZEQSfefon+R1tOBjSxRFH25J6yP/3P5ylfHi/JBuZcOTfR2OxzX7A2 l1fHDG10vw+KbFDsitnqMFggXU8T74wRL3olSqL5giwm4b8pNokygWKIsqlH7Krzwvns EbHXBPWahwUFUoe6jpkath3lFuT4VUHCEzkMNWKyvN9B63u3x/xZ0UTGx22tj+XJAQNQ wOxg== X-Received: by 10.194.184.140 with SMTP id eu12mr14977849wjc.78.1432051788887; Tue, 19 May 2015 09:09:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: julienpauli@gmail.com Received: by 10.194.174.131 with HTTP; Tue, 19 May 2015 09:09:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 18:09:08 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: NW01vjRvgobPGS8ZPp2v0QD-9oY Message-ID: To: Nikita Popov Cc: PHP internals Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7bacc2c02d3c540516718a41 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Soft-reserve "void" class name From: jpauli@php.net (Julien Pauli) --047d7bacc2c02d3c540516718a41 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Nikita Popov wrote: > Hi internals! > > For PHP 7 we soft-reserved a number of class names [1] like "numeric", so > that we have the ability to introduce them as typehints in a 7.x release. > "Soft" here means that we only document these names as being reserved and > don't throw an error when they're used. > > I'd like to add "void" to this list, so we have the option to introduce a > void return type in PHP 7.x. I've seen some disagreement as to whether this > should be called "void" or "null" - this discussion should be held when an > RFC comes up, however we need to keep both options open until then. > (Currently only "null" is reserved.) > > If people think that this requires a vote, I'll open one. > I'm OK with it. Julien --047d7bacc2c02d3c540516718a41--