On Thu, Jun 20, 2024, at 8:29 PM, Thomas Bley wrote:
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pattern-matching
> Thank you!
>
>> $var is *; // Matches anything, more useful in the structure patterns below.
>
> maybe also consider:
>
> $var is mixed; // Matches anything, more useful in the structure patterns below.
:thinking face emoji: That should actually already work naturally through the type support. And
should indeed match anything, so... maybe we'll drop the wildcard and just document to use
mixed for that? It's a bit more to type, but should be pretty self-explanatory
and eliminates a syntax, so... We'll consider this further.
>> // Array application, apply a pattern across an array
>> $foo is array<strings>; // All values in $foo must be strings
>> $foo is array<int|float>; // All values in $foo must be ints or floats
>
> +1
>
> Regards
> Thomas
--Larry Garfield