Is "scalar" an official type?

[herndlm]

Hi, I noticed that scalar seems to correctly resolve to bool|float|int|string but did not find this anywhere in the docs. Is this just missing there, can I use it? Or is this something internal which might break?

See https://phpstan.org/r/a61337af-e21d-440f-9da0-17c8b50d3cc3

It would be nice to use it in a scalar map ala array<string, scalar> which I can check at runtime with the webmozart assertions isMap and allScalars.

[ondrejmirtes]

I guess that some supported types can be missing from https://phpstan.org/writing-php-code/phpdoc-types because they appear in the wild but I don't find them valuable myself. Feel free to update the docs (there's an "Edit" button at the bottom).

For the actually supported types you can look in the source code: https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan-src/blob/ec4e7edfe622c24a5e037d3a088ed8175275737e/src/PhpDoc/TypeNodeResolver.php#L129-L230

[herndlm]

That's what I wanted to hear :) I will do that, thx!