Re: [RFC] Deprecate and Remove Bareword (Unquoted) Strings
| From: | Johannes Schlüter | Date: | Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:46:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Deprecate and Remove Bareword (Unquoted) Strings | ||
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Hi,
On Sun, 2017-01-29 at 19:33 +0000, Rowan Collins wrote:
> Currently, if the constant FROB_ACTIVE is not defined, the code "echo
> FROB_ACTIVE;" results in an E_NOTICE and the string 'FROB_ACTIVE'
> being displayed. I would like to propose that this be changed to an
> E_WARNING in PHP 7.2, and to an Error in PHP 8.0.
related: There is another context where unquoted strings are used:
$a = [ "foo" => "bar" ];
echo "Let's go and have a drink in a $a[foo]!";
Any thoughts about continuing to allow that?
johannes