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Can we talk about PHP functions with typehints too?
Practically every other language with similar syntax does this instead:
JavaScript (Typescript for the type part) and python, the most popular scripting languages, use the same order as PHP.
It's usually compiled languages that do the other one.
TypeScript doesn't need the "function" keyword for a method in an object or on a class though.
which I assume is doable because the syntax is unambiguous.
In PHP's case, the method syntax should also be unambiguous.
Rust and TypeScript use the return-type-at-the-end convention as well.
TypeScript doesn't need the "function" keyword for a method in an object or on a class though.
which I assume is doable because the syntax is unambiguous.
PHP's object orientation is similar to languages like Java and C#, which is what I was comparing to.
Your example didn't mention the use of the function keyword. Instead, it seemed to be questioning the placement of the return type - placing it after the argument list seems pretty common in newer languages.
Python too.
And Kotlin.
AND MY AXE!
TIL PHP has statics.
Also, does PHP actually enforce the type declarations? I'd assume it would but knowing PHP...
It enforces scalar types (string, int, etc) at runtime if you enable strict mode. There's also static analysis tools like PHPStan and Psalm that will flag issues at build time.