Re: [VOTE] match expression

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 11:40, Ilija Tovilo <tovilo.ilija@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi internals > > I have opened the voting on the match expression RFC. It will end on > 9th of May, 2020. > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/match_expression > > Here are the last changes: Hi Ilija, I like this idea, and would like to see 'match' in PHP. At the same time, is there any need to have the vote right now? The deadline for PHP 8 feature freeze is July 27 2020. There were changes to the proposal overnight, which people have not even had a chance to read, let alone think about. To me it feels like the RFC is being rushed to a vote, with respect to the recent changes and the technical problem you describe. > Unfortunately, we discovered some technical difficulties (memory > leaks) which are very hard to solve. Nikita is experimenting on a > possible solution. It also seems the voting options were also changed last night. - The vote is a straight Yes/No vote for accepting the RFC and merging the patch. + "Would you like to add match expressions to the language?" + "Should the semicolon for match in statement form be optional?" + "Should we allow dropping (true) condition?" I think it would be better to continue the conversation and work through the trade-offs when voting isn't active, rather than just hoping people pick the correct choices, or have a contentious time-limited discussion. cheers Dan Ack