Re: [RFC] Reserve EVEN MORE types for PHP7

From:	Larry Garfield	Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:29:54 +0000
Subject:	Re: [RFC] Reserve EVEN MORE types for PHP7
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On 02/20/2015 02:23 PM, Pierre Joye wrote:

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Markus Fischer <markus@fischer.name> wrote:
On 20.02.15 18:55, Sara Golemon wrote:
Announcing this in its own thread: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reserve_even_more_types_in_php_7 This RFC acts as an addition to Levi's https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reserve_more_types_in_php_7 by creating a forum for voting on additional types not included in his RFC: resource, object, scalar, mixed, numeric
From the RFC:
     “resource”
     “object”
     “scalar”
     “mixed”
     “numeric”
"... prohibits their usage as class, interface and trait names." This is such a major BC break.
One thing we must do before even considering non required names is to actually check every major apps, frameworks or libraries. If we can avoid a date/datetime clash again, that would be awesome ;)

"resource" is problematic as that is the proper name for "the thing that corresponds to a URL" in REST. I would be shocked if there aren't classes named Resource (namespaced or not) floating around in web services code. I actually started writing one myself at one point on the side but got distracted by something else shiny... --Larry Garfield