Re: Experimental features

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 1:12 PM Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/10/2022 17:41, Alex Wells wrote: > > For example, Kotlin has recently introduced a new feature - unsigned > integer types. > > > I'm still struggling to understand what I, as a user, would do about this. > > If I start coding an application that relies on these new types, is > there a chance that they'll be removed completely, and I have to rewrite > it all? Is there a chance that every minor version I upgrade might > introduce subtle changes in the behaviour of my code? Or is there just a > chance that someone will decide the bikeshed's the wrong colour and I > have to regex replace all my "123u" to say "u123" instead? > > I would think all of the above, though I would expect given the nature of the RFC process that it would be exceedingly rare in PHP. It would be like a release preview only in a stable version. It does seem like it would have utility in PHP, since we could introduce a feature without worrying about BC breaks if it needs to be modified and adjusted. Jordan