PHP Docblock return types

Published on August 24, 2015 and filed under Software engineering
Written by Hannes Van De Vreken and will take

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When I use my IDE and experiment with classes that I haven't used before, I really love that it tells me what kindof object a method returns to me. My IDE doesn't use Artificial Intelligence to know that, it reads the PHP docblocks.

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