On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 at 20:58, Dan Ackroyd <dan...@basereality.com> wrote:
> For the people who are currently voting 'no', I'd ask are you really > sure that the amount of work adding "#[AllowDynamicProperties]" to the > classes you want to keep having dynamic properties is really that much > time compared to the time that would be saved by having PHP itself > give an error when a user accidentally creates a dynamic property? > No, I don't. I see the vote as a "boiling frog" moment and a protest vote in reaction to other changes which have had a bigger impact on backwards-compatibility. --- I get the impression a lot of comments on this mailing list are from people who know other languages, would like to work with another language, and since they (have to?) use PHP would like PHP to be another language. I find that fascinating. And I'd be well up for having a round-table discussion and recording a podcast on it. --- PHP fills a big niche. it's not the niche that most people on this list seem to want it to fill, but it does. And the results people accomplish with PHP - not in spite of PHP, but because of PHP - are impressive. There are unresolved discussions that have been going on since at least 2019 [1] about direction and what PHP should become. With the formation of the PHP Foundation I hope these can be revisited. Peter References: 1. https://externals.io/message/106453
