changes_magic

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"Ensure correct magic methods' signatures when typed"
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 "Ensure correct signatures of magic methods"
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Introduction

It is currently possible to write magic methods that have signatures that don't match the signature expected, such as `__toString() : float` or `__isset() : Closure`.

This behaviour of allowing incorrect signatures was reported as [a bug](https://bugs.php.net/69718).

As ensuring magic methods have correct signatures is a backward compatible break for code that currently has incorrect signatures, this change would only be appropriate in a major PHP release.



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This RFC proposes to introduce the following signatures checks when magic methods are typed.

Important: only, and only if, any of the listed magic methods use type hints and/or return types, these checks will be performed. In case they don't have types declared, nothing specific will happen.
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This RFC proposes to add parameter and return types per the following details. Other magic methods will be not modified.
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The __construct and __destruct methods won't suffer any change.
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The __construct and __destruct methods won't be changed.
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