Re: [VOTE] Voting opens for str_starts_with and ends_with functions

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 10:54 AM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 4:13 AM <will@wkhudgins.info> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > After 15 days of discussion I have opened up voting on the following RFC > > (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/add_str_begin_and_end_functions) . > > > > You can access the voting page here: > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/add_str_begin_and_end_functions/vote > > > > I have never set up a vote on doku-wiki so please let me know if I made > > the vote incorrectly! > > > > Thanks, > > > > Will > > > > As we're already two days past the announced end, I've closed the RFC vote. > The final outcome is 26 in favor vs 20 against for str_starts_with and > friends, and 4 in favor to 36 against for mb_starts_with and friends. > Because a 2/3 majority is required, both parts of the proposal are declined. > > Based on the discussion during voting, I think that trying this again with > just str_starts_with+str_ends_with without the case-insensitive variants > might pass, as that's where the main controversy seems to be -- though some > people also expressed the view that these functions are too trivial to add > to the standard library. > > In any case, thanks for driving this through the RFC process! > > Nikita Hello Will, More than 6 months have passed, and in the meantime the related str_contains RFC has been accepted for the next PHP 8.0 (<https://externals.io/message/109050>). Would you be willing to reboot your RFC with just str_starts_with and str_ends_with (and a stronger case of how people keep implementing them using the inefficient and/or error-prone currently available alternatives)? Best regards, -- Guilliam Xavier