Description:
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The Liskov substitution principle requires that any child thingy can replace the parent thingy. It does not require the opposite.

A weaker signature should be ok with the LSP.
Unfortunately, in PHP, it is not.


Demo: https://3v4l.org/MX0Cb

See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13423494/why-is-overriding-method-parameters-a-violation-of-strict-standards-in-php#comment18345860_13423625
"if the parameters are contravariant then the types are respected. If PHP was pure OO then there would be no problem, since Array would be narrower than Object (assuming that no type in the declaration means any object)."

One can always dream..

And, just saying: Others are making arguments about overloading. I think this is really a different story and does not apply here. To overload, you will use a narrower signature, so that the version of the method is only applied in some cases, not all. On the other hand, the broader / weaker signature always includes all cases of the parent, so this version will always be used.

Test script:
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interface I {
    
    function foo(J $j);
    
}

interface J extends I {
    
    function foo(I $i);
    
}

Expected result:
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Compile just fine.

Actual result:
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"Fatal error: Declaration of J::foo() must be compatible with that of I::foo()"