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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 14:38:22 -0700
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To: Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Experimental features
From: jordan.ledoux@gmail.com (Jordan LeDoux)

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On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 1:12 PM Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 06/10/2022 17:41, Alex Wells wrote:
> > For example, Kotlin has recently introduced a new feature - unsigned
> integer types.
>
>
> I'm still struggling to understand what I, as a user, would do about this.
>
> If I start coding an application that relies on these new types, is
> there a chance that they'll be removed completely, and I have to rewrite
> it all? Is there a chance that every minor version I upgrade might
> introduce subtle changes in the behaviour of my code? Or is there just a
> chance that someone will decide the bikeshed's the wrong colour and I
> have to regex replace all my "123u" to say "u123" instead?
>
>
I would think all of the above, though I would expect given the nature of
the RFC process that it would be exceedingly rare in PHP. It would be like
a release preview only in a stable version. It does seem like it would have
utility in PHP, since we could introduce a feature without worrying about
BC breaks if it needs to be modified and adjusted.

Jordan

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