I guess you have not read the post you are commenting. One of the rationale behind union types is to reduce the doc-block comments. It is also, I believe, one o

I guess you have not read the post you are commenting. One of the rationale behind union types is to reduce the doc-block comments. It is also, I believe, one of the idea of introducing a stronger type system in PHP. From the original post: [quote] Supporting union types in the language allows us to move more type information from phpdoc into function signatures, ... [/quote]