Re: [RFC] Reserve keywords in PHP 8

Hi Den lør. 13. jun. 2020 kl. 22.10 skrev Ilija Tovilo <tovilo.ilija@gmail.com>: > > Hi internals > > I created a new RFC for reserving keywords we might need in PHP 8.x versions. > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reserve_keywords_in_php_8 > > Let me know if there's something you'd like to work on that will > require a keyword and I will add it to the list. The keywords will > most likely be voted on separately. I do not see a point in soft reserving something we don't even know if it will make it into 8.x. I mean sure you might work on some of them, but they should be voted on a case by case basis. We did future reserve somethings in the past for PHP6, e.g. the "b" string prefix and the "(binary)" cast (for the then non unicode strings). See: https://3v4l.org/nFJHb We stopped trying to future proof code by soft reserving after PHP6 turned out to be nothing and most of the features were ported to PHP5.3. I don't think we should go down that path again of soft reserving something before we can guarantee it will be implemented, something we cannot currently until it is voted in. -- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net