Re: Null-safe property access in interpolated strings

Hi Ilija, Den 2020-08-10 kl. 17:06, skrev Ilija Tovilo:

Hi Nikita

I think if it can be reasonably fixed it probably would make sense for consistency and WTF-avoidance if anything.

Agree. I don't think the question of whether it is useful should come into this, it's a matter of language consistency. There could be some leeway here if we say that we have plans to deprecate the "$x->y" syntax in the future anyway and don't want to extend it anymore -- but I don't believe we have such plans at the present time.

So for the sake of consistency let's merge this then. As mentioned, the BC break should be very very small. A few people have mentioned they didn't expect it to work but when asked again they didn't feel strongly about it. Unless there are objections I will merge this tomorrow. A review of the PR would also be welcome. Ilija

I second Nikitas opinion that consistency is important here. One shouldn't need to spend time as an PHP end user wondering why we have a special case that doesn't work like the rest! Good luck with merging. r//Björn L