On 12.11.2021 at 17:24, Ben Ramsey wrote: >> On Nov 12, 2021, at 10:10, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote: >> >> On 12 November 2021 13:07:42 GMT, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi internals, >>> >>> I've opened the vote on >>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_dynamic_properties. Voting will close >>> 2021-11-26. >> >> I've voted no on this one. Not because I don't like the idea, but because I >> think the timeline for deprecation and removal is way too fast. >> >> This is IMO not something important enough to cause a fairly large BC break >> for, and it should wait until the last in the 8.x series before we deprecate >> it. > > I’ve voted no for the same reason. > > I like this change, but the deprecation in 8.2 seems too disruptive. I’d > rather promote our intent to deprecate this with a statement in the > manual that says something like, “This feature will be deprecated in > PHP 8.3 and removed in 9.0.” Meanwhile, 8.2 should include the > AllowDynamicProperties attribute so folks can start preparing.
Didn't we do this for ext/mysql? Had that the desired effect? I don't think so. Unfortunately, too many devs don't read the docs, and why would they, if they now how stuff works. -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
