Re: Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Arrays starting with a negative index

Pedro, It would be best to just kill the vote and start over. The proposal should be for deprecation notice in 7.2 and implementation in 8.0 IMO — it should be one vote, as doing both together should be the only option. - Davey On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Pedro Magalhães <mail@pmmaga.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 9:52 AM, François Laupretre <francois@php.net> > wrote: > > > > I am sorry you take it this way. Voting today on a feature for 8.0 > > wouldn't be ridiculous and it would make me change my vote, as most > others. > > Instead of nonsense, it would be a sign of maturity for the PHP project.. > It > > would be great, IMO, to open a 'Approved for 8.0' section on the RFC page > > now, and your RFC could proudly be the 1st one to enter it. > > > > I agree with your suggestion and general sentiment so I propose to do the > following: > > - The current voting widget refers to introducing the change on 7.2. > (Will be mentioned on the RFC page) > - Add a new voting widget for introducing the change on 8.0. > - Extend the voting period for one more week than originally planned > until 27/6/2017 18:00 UTC. > > Additionally, since some people also mentioned the difficulty in detecting > this change, if the vote for 8.0 passes, I suggest to introduce a > E_DEPRECATED notice where the implicit keys will change. You can see that > implementation here: > https://github.com/php/php-src/compare/master...pmmaga: > negative-array-deprecated > Would it make sense to include an extra voting widget for the introduction > of the notice? > > Given that we are on the voting phase I would oppose changing anything by > principle, but given that most of the discussion on the topic only started > when the vote was started and what is dividing the vote is the timing, I > think it makes sense to update the RFC in this case. Let me know what you > think. > > Thanks, > Pedro >