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Subject: Re: [RFC] Reserving More Types in PHP 7
From: nate.abele@gmail.com (Nate Abele)

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On Sunday, April 26, 2015, Levi Morrison <levim=40php.net (mailto:levim=40=
php.net)> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Nate Abele <nate.abele=40gmail.com (ja=
vascript:;)> wrote:
> >> Dear Internals,
> >>
> >> I would like to discuss a small R=46C for reserving more types in PH=
P 7:
> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reserve=5Fmore=5Ftypes=5Fin=5Fphp=5F7
> >
> >
> > Welp, thanks for breaking my framework, everyone.
> >
> > It just *had* to be case-insensitive too, hm=3F
> =20
> I'm not sure what you want us to say.

Well, it looks to me like all the discussion is around preventing class a=
nd namespace names like =E2=80=9Cstring=E2=80=9D, =E2=80=9Cfloat=E2=80=9D=
, etc. Granted, PHP class names are case-insensitive, but how hard would =
it be to reserve these in a case-sensitive way=3F

Lithium, CakePHP, and Drupal all have String classes. These aren=E2=80=99=
t small projects. Not to mention the presumably untold numbers of develop=
ers who have hand-rolled =E2=80=98type=E2=80=99 classes into their projec=
ts while waiting around for scalar type-hinting support to land. And ever=
yone=E2=80=99s cool with breaking all of these=3F

Has someone valiantly signed on to do LTS support for 5.6 beyond two year=
s from now, and I=E2=80=99m just not aware of it=3F Or are we cool with l=
etting all the dependent software that can=E2=80=99t afford to be upgrade=
d just atrophy and die=3F

I get that PHP 7 is the big opportunity to break backward compatibility, =
but yeesh, really=3F It=E2=80=99s like we=E2=80=99re not even trying anym=
ore.
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