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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Constants in traits
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Tommins)

On 10/07/2022 13:51, Björn Larsson via internals wrote:
> I think it's quite unlikely to deprecate such a rather big feature and
> from that perspective I think one should do it as good as possible.
>
> Even if one thinks that this is a bad feature not to be expanded, why
> not try to make it work better? So, I hope this RFC passes! 


I agree.

Having sat down and read through the RFC, it is extremely conservative 
in its scope, and presents a clear case that it will fix a source of 
bugs in things that people can already do, i.e. reference constants 
inside a trait definition.

It seems very unlikely that this change will make people suddenly use 
traits in more "wrong" places, nor prevent any alternative horizontal 
reuse / composition aid features being added in future.

Regards,

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Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]