Re: [VOTE] Deprecate dynamic properties

On Sat, 13 Nov 2021, 00:14 Christoph M. Becker, <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > Offering an > opt-out of dynamic properties or some switch to disable the deprecation > would not help in that regard. > Given this is a big change to the way PHP has behaved for decades I did wonder why the RFC didn't propose an opt-out of dynamic properties rather than opt-in, preserving the long-term language behaviour. So thanks for covering that. I think you and the PHP internals community will be surprised by how widely used dynamic properties are. I read through a handful of WordPress plugins we have installed and found a few. And in my own where I'm using a named class instead of an array. I work with modern framework based code most of the time and I find it easy to forget what is out there as quintessential or traditional PHP code. Whether we have #[AllowDynamicProperties] or #[DenyDynamicProperties] one set of PHP users is going to be doing a find & replace across their codebase. From a DX perspective I'd rather have #[DenyDynamicProperties] as it's like declaring strict_mode and opt-in. Either way are the planned engine changes feasible, as the feature of dynamic properties stays in the language but toggled off/on per class? Peter >