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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:43:04 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Null-safe property access in interpolated strings
From: bjorn.x.larsson@telia.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Bj=c3=b6rn_Larsson?=)

Hi Ilija,

Den 2020-08-10 kl. 17:06, skrev Ilija Tovilo:

> Hi Nikita
>
>>> I think if it can be reasonably fixed it probably would make sense for
>>> consistency and WTF-avoidance if anything.
>> Agree. I don't think the question of whether it is useful should come into
>> this, it's a matter of language consistency. There could be some leeway
>> here if we say that we have plans to deprecate the "$x->y" syntax in the
>> future anyway and don't want to extend it anymore -- but I don't believe we
>> have such plans at the present time.
> So for the sake of consistency let's merge this then. As mentioned,
> the BC break should be very very small. A few people have mentioned
> they didn't expect it to work but when asked again they didn't feel
> strongly about it.
>
> Unless there are objections I will merge this tomorrow. A review of
> the PR would also be welcome.
>
> Ilija

I second Nikitas opinion that consistency is important here. One shouldn't
need to spend time as an PHP end user wondering why we have a special
case that doesn't work like the rest!

Good luck with merging.

r//Björn L