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charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk list-help: <mailto:internals+help@lists.php.net list-unsubscribe: <mailto:internals+unsubscribe@lists.php.net> list-post: <mailto:internals@lists.php.net> List-Id: internals.lists.php.net x-ms-reactions: disallow MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginatorOrg: outlook.com X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-AuthAs: Internal X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-AuthSource: PH7PR16MB5781.namprd16.prod.outlook.com X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-RMS-PersistedConsumerOrg: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-Network-Message-Id: 02aaa0be-52f2-43ce-94ab-08dd09938573 X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-rms-persistedconsumerorg: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-originalarrivaltime: 20 Nov 2024 18:45:35.9752 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-fromentityheader: Hosted X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-id: 84df9e7f-e9f6-40af-b435-aaaaaaaaaaaa X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: LV3PR16MB5924 From: theodorejb@outlook.com (Theodore Brown) On Wed, Nov. 20, 2024 at 11:38 Larry Garfield wrote:=0A= =0A= > Unless it's causing parser issues somewhere I don't think we *need* to ad= dress it. Maybe just document that one really shouldn't use it, and it's o= nly there for legacy reasons. That said, if someone wants to go to the wor= k of removing it, I'd probably support it.=0A= =0A= I don't feel particularly strongly about it, but I am inclined to write an = RFC to deprecate it, since removing some of these little-known legacy synta= xes makes the language cleaner and less confusing, and sometimes can even p= ave the way for future features.=0A= =0A= For example, the curly brace syntax for accessing array elements and string= offsets was deprecated in PHP 7.4,[1] and if I recall this made possible t= he property hooks syntax we have now in PHP 8.4.=0A= =0A= Sincerely,=0A= Theodore=0A= =0A= [1]: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_curly_braces_array_access=