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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:04:43 +0100
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To: Levi Morrison <levim@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] ReflectionType improvements
From: pthreads@pthreads.org (Joe Watkins)

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Afternoon Levi,

    Since communication broke down over the last few days, I'm happy for
you to move forward with the discussion period.

    Voting will have to be abbreviated to make everything fit.

Cheers
Joe

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote:

> Now that the mailing list is working again I'd like to propose some
> improvements to the ReflectionType API. We added ReflectionType as
> part of the Return Types RFC. At that time the API was intentionally
> kept minimal to not step on the toes of potential future features
> (such as enum, union and intersection types) with the intention of
> fleshing it out later. As long as the release managers for 7.1 are
> okay with it I'd like to do these improvements now. Shall I move
> forward with an RFC or do you consider this too late?
>
> The proposed API looks like this:
> https://gist.github.com/morrisonlevi/5819a2b8d86561849ee916a7bcbc9c29.
> Notably a `ReflectionClassType` will be returned if possible which has
> a `getClass(): ReflectionClass` method. This has been a commonly
> requested addition and simplifies a common use-case.
>
> I tried to discuss these changes on Reddit to gauge community impact
> but it had few responses:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/4m93s1/i_want_to_enhance_and_break_the_reflectiontype/
> .
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