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Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 10:06:28 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Transform exit() from a language construct
 into a standard function
To: "Gina P. Banyard" <internals@gpb.moe>
Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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From: levi.morrison@datadoghq.com (Levi Morrison)

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 3:52=E2=80=AFAM Gina P. Banyard <internals@gpb.moe>=
 wrote:
>
> Hello Internals,
>
> I have just opened the vote for the "Transform exit() from a language con=
struct into a standard function" RFC:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/exit-as-function
>
> The vote will last for two weeks until the 13th of August 2024.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gina P. Banyard

After thinking about this several times over the course of discussion
and again now that it's in voting, I have decided to vote no. I am in
favor of this change, I just think given the concerns it's best to
wait for PHP 9.0 to do it. Maybe the concerns with control flow can be
improved by better inference/marking of functions which are
`noreturn`, at least for known functions (of which `\exit` definitely
would be).