Typed class constants support

[thekid]

In a nutshell

class T {
  public const string NAME= 'Test';
}

• Syntactic support with erasure at compile time (see cad16ee)
• Emit type in meta information for PHP < 8.3
• Extend reflection to support types for class constants
• Emit types once the Typed class constants RFC implementation is merged into PHP 8.3

See also

• https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typed_class_constants - RFC
• Typed class constants php/php-src#10444 - RFC implementation
• Emit meta data for class constants #163 - Emit meta information
• Add support for class constants types reflection#32 - Extend reflection
• Omit constant types for all PHP versions < 8.3 #165 - Emit types

[thekid]

The RFC has been accepted, need to wait for php/php-src#10444 before adding this to the PHP 8.3 emitter.

[thekid]

PR has been merged, the build from https://github.com/shivammathur/php-builder-windows/actions/runs/4715949822 contains the change:

$ XP_RT=8.3 xp -w 'class T { const string NAME= "Test"; } return T::NAME'
Test

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Released in https://github.com/xp-framework/compiler/releases/tag/v8.11.0