Re: PHP 8.4 / Status of "Saner Increment/Decrement operator" part 2 ?

On Tuesday, 17 September 2024 at 19:04, Juliette Reinders Folmer <php-internals_nospam@adviesenzo.nl> wrote: > L.s., > > I was just looking at the "Path to Saner Increment/Decrement operators" RFC [1] and > as part of the proposal, step 2 "Deprecate using the increment operator with non-numeric > strings." should have gone into PHP 8.4, but I can't find anything about this deprecation > having been added in PHP 8.4 in the UPGRADING docs. > > Anyone around who can tell me what the status is ? > > Smile, > Juliette > > 1: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/saner-inc-dec-operators As Christoph has already said, the RFC indicated PHP 8.X where X is greater than 3. So no it did not need to land in 8.4. Considering that I personally find it unlikely that the next version is going to be 9.0 (now I may be wrong but we don't really have any strong indications for doing this bump) and people were already uncomfortable at the timeline I proposed when the RFC got voted; I found it better to let another deprecation free version for people to move to str_increment(). I did not forget about this and had it on the planned list of things to tackle for PHP 8.5. Best regards, Gina P. Banyard