Creating strictly typed arrays and collections in PHP
You might thing that PHP is not able to automatically perform a type check on items in an array. But using variadic constructor this is possible. Bert Ramakers wrote a blogpost with some good examples on how to do this.
One of the language features announced back in PHP 5.6 was the addition of the “…” token to denote that a function or method accepts a variable length of arguments.Something I rarely see mentioned is that it’s possible to combine this feature with type hints to essentially create typed arrays.