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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:46:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC Discussion] Typed Properties
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

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Hi,

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Matt Prelude <me@mprelu.de> wrote:

I'd support borrowing the "?" nullable annotation from HackLang for
> people who want a less strict behavior:
>
> public ?string $name;
>
> This means that $name can either be a string or the NULL value.
>

Or, do it like with parameter type hinting:

     public string $name = null;

Although I'm all for limiting NULL to only being the default value:

    $this->name = null; // this should throw a TypeError


Cheers,
Andrey.

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