Re: The future of objects and operators

On 07.05.22 22:59, Jordan LeDoux wrote:

I like the way you organized the different levels of support within the feature, it's a good organizational structure for thinking about the feature-set. Given the feedback though, I found myself a little concerned that if I created a Level 1 proposal, it's very possible that the people in groups 1 and 3 above might vote for it. However, in doing so it's also very possible that all the use-cases those voters care about would then be covered, and many would then block anything which helps use-cases they do not commonly use. In essence, the particular feedback I received made me concerned that passing a Level 1 RFC would basically guarantee that Level 2+ would never happen until the voter base itself was significantly changed. Creating "smaller steps" (within a certain feature set) seems to have

been the more successful route for PHP RFCs and not necessarily slowed down further enhancements, in my estimation. The more one single RFC is about, the more there is to possibly dislike. It is also easier to reason about less changes at any one point in time and make a more compelling case for the changes. So I think your overall goal of more feature-complete operator overloading remains viable even if you start "small" with a level 1 proposal.