Re: Soft-reserve "void" class name
| From: | Levi Morrison | Date: | Tue, 19 May 2015 16:21:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Soft-reserve "void" class name | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote:
> I strongly disagree with this action. These types required an RFC; why
> should this be different? Also note that neither of the reserve
> typename RFC were unanimous.
>
> Furthermore, we are past the RFC stage. We are *supposed to already
> have an alpha* by now and we are proposing new changes?. Please stick
> to our established rules and release timetables as much as possible,
> thank you.
On a related note it is unclear what BC breaks are exactly allowed in
minor releases. Adding new reserved types is a BC break, but it was
done in PHP 5.4 with
callable. We should solidify what we do and do
not allow in minor releases for the PHP 7 release series.