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Typescript can do it, so why not add the same feature to PHP as well? As a JS/TS developer, all I see is avoiding two characters: {}, everything else is possib
by wonderlg 6y ago
Typescript can do it, so why not add the same feature to PHP as well?
As a JS/TS developer, all I see is avoiding two characters: {}, everything else is possible in JavaScript and well-typed in TypeScript.
PHP 8
save(
value: 3
)
JS 1
save({
value: 3
})
- duckerude 6y agoPHP's strict typing is only enforced at runtime, and because of that, its type system is very simple, unlike Typescript's. You can enforce that a variable is an array, but not that it's an array of ints, let alone that it's an array with certain types under certain keys. Although there is external tooling that uses static analysis for such more complicated types.
- xellisx 6y agoWe really need structs in PHP. I drew up a draft, but didn't get very far with it. https://github.com/ellisgl/PHP-RFC-Struct-Data-Type https://github.com/ellisgl/PHP-RFC-Struct-Data-Type