Re: Future stability of PHP?

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023, at 4:32 PM, Jeffrey Dafoe wrote: > Can you expand a bit more on your use-case? > > We have a lot of classes, a small portion of which use dynamic > properties, but we do not necessarily know which ones do. It’s > different than, for example, a change to the count function. We can > search for all instances of “count” but not for dynamic properties. I’m > unsure if it’s practical to run deprecations on in prod and our test > suite, although substantial, doesn’t cover all code paths. Tools like PHPStan and Psalm can do a pretty good job of finding all dynamic property usage for you, without needing to write a test suite for it. They'll treat them as an error, but it should give you a good sense of where to add the attribute. It won't be perfect, but it will probably catch the lion's share of them unless you're doing very dynamic things. ($this->{$foo[$bar]} = 5, or stuff like that.) --Larry Garfield