Re: [RFC] Interface Default Methods
| From: | Levi Morrison via internals | Date: | Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:52:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Interface Default Methods | ||
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 9:16 AM Tim Düsterhus <tim@bastelstu.be> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On 6/15/23 17:08, Deleu wrote:
> > The feature may introduce a new way for *Users of PHP* to break BC with
> > *Other Users of PHP*. The language change itself has no impact on PHP code
> > written prior to the feature. The additional note about how users may break
> > BC by using the feature would be a description of the feature itself, thus
> > might be best declared as part of the Proposal instead.
> >
>
> There's also the possible impact with regard to static analysis tools,
> IDEs and formatters that do not expect a method body to exist within
> interfaces and thus might erroneously report such an interface as
> invalid. This might be considered an impact on code written prior to the
> feature existing.
>
> Best regards
> Tim Düsterhus
I have added a brief section in RFC impact that code analysis tools
will need to be updated. This is implicitly true for many language
features, but I see no harm in calling it out in the RFC, so I have
done so. Thank you for the feedback.