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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][Vote announcement] Arbitrary static variable
 initializers
From: tim@bastelstu.be (=?UTF-8?Q?Tim_D=c3=bcsterhus?=)

Hi

On 3/15/23 13:02, Ilija Tovilo wrote:
> It's been a while since I've announced this RFC.
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/arbitrary_static_variable_initializers
> https://externals.io/message/118976
> 
> There haven't been many responses, so I'd like to put this to a vote
> early next week.
> 

There is an unresolved "question":

> Side note: It's been suggested that expressions that can be evaluated constantly continue to do so. This would mean that some expressions in getStaticVariables are evaluated and some are not. The upside is that this would avoid the backward incompatibility. I will check if this is technically feasible.

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus