PHP8 null style fixer

[pkly]

From 7.1 onwards we've been able to use ? to show nullability, but PHP8 introduces better typing, so I was wondering if there are any plans to create a fixer that'd replace something like ?Foo to Foo|null?

[Wirone]

Hi @pkly 🙂. There's #3562 proposal, but unfortunately it is still waiting to be picked up by someone. Are in interested 😉?

[pkly]

I could probably try it. Any suggested null stuff I could look at as an example?

[Wirone]

You may want to look at nullable_type_declaration_for_default_null_value 🙂.

[paulbalandan]

I have created an implementation that works both ways. Would it be rude to send that as PR while there is existing?

[Wirone]

@paulbalandan as a maintainers we want the best solution, so having 2 implementations allow us choose better one (in terms of maintainability, complexity etc). Maybe we can somehow merge them into one and make both you and @pkly a co-authors? 🙂

[pkly]

I wouldn't mind.

[Wirone]

Recently nullable_type_declaration was introduced and can standardise nullability both ways (question mark or union type).