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Type hinting factory methods with "self" results in "Unexpected return type" error #309

Closed apemsel closed 7 years ago

apemsel commented 7 years ago

A static factory method type hinted with "self" like this:

public static function createFromFoo() : self 
{
    /* ... */ 
}

results in

"(Unexpected return type definition [UnitCollectingVisitor.php:279])"