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

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71578&edit=1 ID: 71578 Updated by: cmb@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: That might be best, Thomas, even though we'll have to keep an eye on changes to come. If there are no objections, I'll commit that in a few days. BTW: mixed and numeric are also soft reserved words. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-02-21 23:00:19] tpunt@php.net What about splitting the list into actual reserved words and soft reserved words? Patch diff: https://gist.github.com/tpunt/906fe83e8d91dd75eaed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71578 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71578&edit=1