Upcoming changes in PHP 7.1

Re:Upcoming changes in PHP 7.1 by jonhohle on Monday May 23, 2016 @02:49PM (#11755930)

From a grammar perspective, it seems odd to declare property types as prefixes instead of matching the return type syntax. Were suffixed types considered?

  class Person
  {
      public $name : string;
      public $age : int;
      public $isEmployee : bool;
  }

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Re:Upcoming changes in PHP 7.1 by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday May 23, 2016 @04:04PM (#11756482)

Well, we don't use suffixes for parameter types:

  public function __construct(string $name, int $age, bool $isEmployee);

And all other qualifiers (`static`, `public`/`protected`/`private`) come before the property name, so why should the type be any different?

Hack doesn't do this either.

I do think the idea came up.

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