heiglandreas, 3 months ago

@Crell Why would you hint for something that you don't use? 😇

Though: As long as PHP doesn't understand stdClass[] as a type, I'd probably still want to have that. And iterable as type isn't better than array in that case...

But I'm usually using self-defined lists-classes in those cases anyhow, so 🤷

timwolla, 3 months ago

@Crell You also shouldn't call it “hint”, no matter if it's an array or something else 😜 (unless you're dealing with PHPDoc, i.e. lies).

Crell, 3 months ago

@timwolla Also true. 🙂

Hipska, 3 months ago

@Crell “An IDE can provide auto-completion for the properties you've defined.” @phpstorm can do that for the returned array as well if you put it in phpdocs.

Crell, 3 months ago

@Hipska @phpstorm Oh good, so provide the structure in a totally different syntax that the engine cannot lint for you (a separate tool is needed), and can easily get out of sync without errors. And uses twice the memory of a class.

I'll take native types, thanks.