Hi Internals, A year ago, when WeakRef was being proposed, some objections <https://externals.io/message/104014#104068> related to the PECL Weakref package <https://www.php.net/manual/fr/book.weakref.php> had lead the RFC author, Joe Watkins, to rename WeakRef to WeakReference to avoid conflicts.
However, the latest addition from Nikita Popov, WeakMap <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/weak_maps>, did not take the same argument into account, therefore conflicting with PECL WeakMap <https://www.php.net/manual/fr/class.weakmap.php>. *First of all, how will this be handled in the docs?* Now that we have a conflict on WeakMap anyway, and now that the PECL package has been deprecated, and provided that the conflict can be gracefully handled in the docs, *is there anything that prevents WeakReference from being called WeakRef?* Could we have both names in PHP 8, like WeakReference being an alias for WeakRef? Thank you, Benjamin
