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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:57:41 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Improving PHP's type system
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Fleshgrinder <php@fleshgrinder.com> wrote:
> Nothing to add other than +1, however, didn't you already write those?
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/nullable_types
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/union_types
>
> Or is this just an announcement that these will be finalized now?
>
> Btw. I am in favor of having the question mark as a suffix and not as a
> prefix because it is more readable and more natural to type.
>
> function fn(string? $str): bool?;
>
> Declare a function with the name fn that takes a string argument that is
> nullable which will return a bool or null.
>
> That is exactly how I would think about the above while writing and
> reading. :)
>
> --
> Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger
>

I have written them but later they will be formally moved to Under
Discussion and will create new threads for them here on the mailing
list.