Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.6

On Mon, 22 Jun 2026, Gina P. Banyard wrote: > Hello internals, > > It is this time of year again where we proposed a list of deprecations to add in PHP 8.6: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_6 I think I am not in favour of the following: - Deprecate returning from a finally block If somebody uses a return in a finally block, than this could just as well be intentional. - Deprecate the _() function alias for gettext() AFAIK, this is heavily used as it was (is) the original (C) way of using it. I don't see an impact analysis for this one, and unless it's having *no* impact, I don't think we should remove it. - Deprecate Metaphone Function I don't see why this is useful. It causes no harm AFAICT. - Deprecate dechunk filter I believe that if you deprecate this as a filter, then there should be a userland function that does the same thing (in a sane way). cheers, Derick -- https://derickrethans.nl | https://xdebug.org | https://xdebug.cloud Author of Xdebug. Like it? Consider supporting me: https://xdebug.org/support mastodon: @derickr@phpc.social @xdebug@phpc.social