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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:20:49 +0100
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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From: t.carnage@gmail.com (Chris Riley)

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On 15 October 2015 at 16:32, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:


> In a sense, what this RFC offers might be called a compromise. It enforces
> the rules of `void` within the function, but at the end of the day the
> caller still gets a null out of it since that's what PHP's always done.
>
>
>
If this truly is the case, then all you get over hinting void as the return
type instead of null is a fatal error for return null; Sure you can argue
for capturing intent but realistically the difference in intent between
'returns no value' and 'does not return a value' is something for
philosophers to argue over not programmers. ;)

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