PHP Internals News: Episode 102: Add True Type
In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with George Peter Banyard (Website, Twitter, GitHub, GitLab) about the "Add True Type" RFC that he has proposed.
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Transcript
- Derick Rethans 0:00
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Hi I'm Derick. Welcome to PHP internals news, the podcast dedicated to explaining the latest developments in the PHP language. This is episode 102. Today I'm talking with George Peter Banyard about the Add True Type RFC that he's proposing. Hello George Peter, would you please introduce yourself?
- George Peter Banyard 0:33
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Hello, my name is George Peter Banyard, I work part time for the PHP Foundation. And I work on the documentation.
- Derick Rethans 0:40
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Very well. We're co workers really aren't we?
- George Peter Banyard 0:43
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Yes, indeed, we all co workers.
- Derick Rethans 0:45
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Excellent. We spoke in the past about related RFCs. I remember, which one was that again?
- George Peter Banyard 0:51
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Making null and false stand alone types
- Derick Rethans 0:53
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That's the one I was thinking of him. But what is this RFC about?
- George Peter Banyard 0:56
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So this RFC is about adding true as a single type. So we have false, which is one part of the Boolean type, but we don't have true. Now the reasons for that are a bit like historical in some sense, although it's only from PHP 8.0. So talking about something historical. When it's only a year ago, it's a bit weird. The main reason was that like PHP has many internal functions, which return false on failure. So that was a reason to include it in the Union types RFC, so that we could probably document these types because I know it would be like, string and Boolean when it could only return false and never true. So which is a bit pointless and misleading, so that was the point of adding false. And this statement didn't apply to true for the most part. With PHP 8, we did a lot of warning to value error promotions, or type error promotions, and a lot of cases where a lot of functions which used to return false, stopped returning false, and they would throw an exception instead. These
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