Re: [RFC] Deprecate dynamic properties

Hey Nikita On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 12:03 PM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi internals, > > I'd like to propose the deprecation of "dynamic properties", that is > properties that have not been declared in the class (stdClass and > __get/__set excluded, of course): > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_dynamic_properties > > This has been discussed in various forms in the past, e.g. in > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/locked-classes as a class modifier and > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespace_scoped_declares / > > > https://github.com/nikic/php-rfcs/blob/language-evolution/rfcs/0000-language-evolution.md > as a declare directive. > > This RFC takes the more direct route of deprecating this functionality > entirely. I expect that this will have relatively little impact on modern > code (e.g. in Symfony I could fix the vast majority of deprecation warnings > with a three-line diff), but may have a big impact on legacy code that > doesn't declare properties at all. > I'm totally on board with this! Others in the thread have mentioned that these dynamic properties can be used for lazy-loading purposes, but I think we've demonstrated (over the years) that this can be achieved in a type-safe way anyway, and dynamic properties are not needed at all. Over the past decade, I've not seen a single valid use of dynamic properties either. If this passes, I'll also deprecate and discontinue experiments like https://github.com/Ocramius/LazyProperty Greets, Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/