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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Disable autovivification on false
From: marandall@php.net (Mark Randall)
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On 05/06/2021 20:50, Kamil Tekiela wrote:
> However, I would still like to hear from you whether you
> use autovivification from false and/or null in your projects. So far, I was
> not able to identify when this would be useful in real-life scenarios.

As per the RFC:

"In PHP 8.1, appending to a variable of type false will throw a 
deprecation error"


You might want to clarify this language, throwing an error is understood 
to have a specific meaning in PHP, and it's not what it's doing here.

Mark Randall