[berkes]

There's no need to have this in the language just to solve the case you describe.

"function current_thing(id: Int, callback: Fn(Int)) {}" and, when you decide you need more you have a myriad of options to add these. From the despised "function current_real_thing(id: Ind, success_callback: Fn(Int), error_callback: Fn(Error)) {}" to "some_namespace:current_thing(...)" via "OtherClass::current_thing(...)" to "load current_thing from NewImplementationOfThing" and so on.

Being strict and explicit isn't opposed to being flexible. And strictness and explicitness is most often a predicament to allow for future change, rather than hampering that future change.

It's far easier to refactor, maintain, test and reason about strict and limited implementations than to do so with dynamic, runtime-magically-changing implementations.

[bwoebi]

I found this approach works best with languages having method overloading. For PHP it felt quite limiting, and it also requires you to have more complexity and overhead with wrapping.

But I have no hard evidence at hand, only how I experienced that in PHP.