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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [IDEA for RFC] let the "new" operator fail when the
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From: tim@bastelstu.be (=?UTF-8?Q?Tim_D=C3=BCsterhus?=)

Hi Mirco

On 3/6/26 14:58, Mirco Babin wrote:
> I updated the RFC at
> https://gist.github.com/MircoBabin/aaa574297c8d1baa879f19c99ce28e93
> and changed the status to *rejected by the author*. This RFC is not
> implementable; the why is explained in the updated RFC, first section.

Thank you for the update. While I believe there still might be a 
misunderstanding, it wouldn't be fair to your time to push further.

Nevertheless I really appreciate that you took the time to write an RFC 
document and to participate on the discussion on the mailing list. Your 
RFC also provided some insightful examples that will come in handy for 
future reference.

I plan to pick this up based on my suggested implementation and have 
just added the proposal as a stub to the PHP 8.6 bulk deprecation RFC at

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_6#deprecate_returning_a_value_from_construct

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus