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Daniel Rotter
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Studied and lectured Computer Science at fhvorarlberg, coorganizes VlbgWebDev and AgentConf, programming in #php, #symfony, #laravel, #javascript, #vuejs.

Currently working at Yummy Publishing, previously valantic, Sulu and MASSIVE ART.
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Another nice example baked into #PHP why having different return types for the same function is a really bad idea. It just results in way more effort to do things right everywhere this function is used.
<?php /** * @param array<int> $values * @return array<int, mixed> */ function get_random_keys(array $values, int $limit): array { return $limit > 1 ? array_rand($values, $limit) : [array_rand($values)]; }
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Would have written it something like this. Don't get why they made the parentheses mandatory though, in JavaScript I would have written it without them.

For some totally subjective reason I find switch(true) or match(true) weird 🙈 But it definitely is better than a nested ternary in a single line 🙂
$key = $reflectionProperty->isPrivate() ? "\0" . ltrim($class, '\\') . "\0" .$name : ( $reflectionProperty->isProtected() ? "\0*\0" . $name : $name ) ;
October 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM