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Request #72344 Allow the Splat Operator with InstanceOf
Submitted: 2016-06-06 15:28 UTC Modified: 2017-08-04 23:00 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
Same OS:0 (0.0%)
From: chad dot sikorra at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Suspended Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 7.0.7 OS: Irrelevant
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2016-06-06 15:28 UTC] chad dot sikorra at gmail dot com
Description:
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With the addition of the splat operator in PHP 5.6 it became very useful to have an array of objects and pass them to a method and still have type checking (even when using splat, such as: foo(\DateTime ...$dates).

I'm not sure if this is practical/possible to implement, but it would be very useful to use that same sort of type checking with the splat operator for instanceof checks, such as: if (...$dates instanceof \DateTime). Currently that syntax produces "PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '...' (T_ELLIPSIS)".

Test script:
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$foo = [ new \DateTime(), new \DateTime()];

if (...$foo instanceof \DateTime) {
    echo "DateTime";
}

Expected result:
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DateTime

Actual result:
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PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '...' (T_ELLIPSIS)

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 [2017-08-04 23:00 UTC] stas@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Suspended
 [2017-08-04 23:00 UTC] stas@php.net
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