Re: [RFC] Deprecate partially supported callables

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 12:46 PM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 5:06 PM Côme Chilliet < > come.chilliet@fusiondirectory.org> wrote: > > > Le Thu, 2 Sep 2021 16:32:32 +0200, > > Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > > Hi internals, > > > > > > Currently, there are some callables that are accepted by the "callable" > > > type, but which cannot be used with $callable() syntax. This RFC > proposes > > > to deprecate support for such "callables": > > > > > > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_partially_supported_callables > > > > It took me some time to understand that this was not a proposal to remove > > support for all array/string representation of callables. > > This should be made clearer if possible, maybe even list the callable > kinds > > which will not be deprecated. > > > > Yeah, I definitely have no intention of deprecating string/array callables > in general. If something works in $callable(), then it's going to continue > working. Added the following note: > > > Normal "function", "Foo::method", ["Foo", > > "method"] and [new Foo, > "method"] style callables are unaffected by this change. > > Regards, > Nikita > With this, PHP walks another step towards a much needed cleanup. From me this is a more than welcome change. -- Atenciosamente, Flávio Heleno