Doc #71578 [Com]: object, mixed and numeric are not reserved words

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71578&edit=1 ID: 71578 Comment by: tpunt@php.net Reported by: david at grudl dot com Summary: object, mixed and numeric are not reserved words Status: Re-Opened Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Assigned To: cmb Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: What about splitting the list into actual reserved words and soft reserved words? Patch diff: https://gist.github.com/tpunt/906fe83e8d91dd75eaed Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-02-12 22:06:50] bwoebi@php.net It still is badly worded. Reading the whole: > These words cannot be used to name a class, interface or a trait. These words are also > prohibited from being used in namespaces. Some of the words are reserved to enable future PHP > features without breaking backward compatibility. It suggests that none of these words can be used currently, just that some of them don't have any use yet. It doesn't say that some of these can still be used, but is just not advised. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-02-12 21:16:26] cmb@php.net The documentation already states: | Some of the words are reserved to enable future PHP features | without breaking backward compatibility. So this is "not a bug". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-02-12 19:32:55] bwoebi@php.net They are reserved, but not prohibited from usage. The emphasis is on *reserved*; that it is strongly advised to not use them, as it is not that unlikely that future code will prohibit its usage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-02-12 17:33:45] david at grudl dot com And *resource* too ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-02-12 17:32:08] david at grudl dot com Description: ------------ Words *object, mixed, numeric* are listed as reserved word in documentation http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.other-reserved-words.php, but they are not reserved https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d1b777bd992525ced913a033bd7fff9490614f52/Zend/zend_compile.c#L151 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71578&edit=1