New format rule to keep colon and question mark together?

AnthonyANI

This seems to be another formatting oddity of certain IDEs. Nonetheless to conform to code standards, perhaps we could have an additional formatting rule for the PHP Formatter to keep return type colons and nullable question marks together rather than placing the question mark next to the nullable return type?

Instead of:

function myAction() : ?MyObject

If enabled, the rule would keep the colon and question mark together like:

function myAction() :? MyObject

This would be similar to this existing rule:

Thanks!

MiloslavBeno

Hi Anthony,

Interesting. I haven't seen this one yet.

Can you point to some IDE that has this? How do they behave when the nullable question mark is not in the function return type context?

foo(?string str)

Thanks

AnthonyANI

MiloslavBeno Hi. I went digging around thinking it was a code style option in PHPStorm, but didn't see it. So it may be something done by a plugin or just by hand. In your code snippet, the formatter still places the ? next to the type just like you have. It only seems to be a special case for the nullable return type declaration.