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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:53:50 -0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC Proposal - static modifier for classes
From: deleugyn@gmail.com (Deleu)

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On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 1:43=E2=80=AFPM Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.=
com>
wrote:

> On 20 November 2023 08:35:15 GMT, Lanre Waju <lanre@online-presence.ca>
> wrote:
>
> >1. I will personally implement this feature.
>
> That's good to hear, but the initial implementation is not the main cost
> of a new feature. Once we add something, it's very hard to remove, and
> every future change has to consider that feature and make sure it doesn't
> break.
>
> It's probably not productive to just say "the people who voted last time
> are wrong", but it was long enough ago that a new RFC on the topic wouldn=
't
> break any rules.


9 years is long enough to conclude that whatever happens, they weren't
really wrong back then. Maybe at that time the best thing for the language
was not to introduce it. The maintenance cost of a feature and the benefit
it brings are also things subject to change in such a long timeline. Maybe
the current technical debt or the current suite of tests make this feature
less of a burden than it used to be or maybe our understanding of the value
of such a feature has changed in the course of 9 years.


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Marco Deleu

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