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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] nameof
From: dossche.niels@gmail.com (Niels Dossche)

On 13/05/2023 09:27, Robert Landers wrote:
> Hello Internals,
> 
> It is with much trepidation and excitement that I'd like to announce
> the `nameof` RFC (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/nameof). It has changed
> quite a bit in the last couple of days, so if you haven't seen the
> latest draft, please check it out.
> 
> Essentially, it allows using `nameof()` anywhere a string can be used,
> even in static contexts. From a developer's perspective, it is a
> string and from the engine's perspective, it is also mostly a string
> (depending on how deep we want to go on error checking -- see the
> RFC).
> 
> If anything is unclear or if I missed something, please let me know.
> 
> Robert Landers
> Software Engineer
> Utrecht NL
> 

Hello Robert

Thank you for doing the proposal. I can see some places where I might use this.

I have an additional question that I don't think has been asked yet. About the interaction of nameof with "variable variables":
What should be returned by `nameof($$variable)`, and similarly `nameof($$$variable)`, etc?
Defining the semantics for this, and giving examples in the RFC text would be great :)

Good luck with your RFC.

Cheers
Niels