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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] async/await - is future reserved words in PHP 7.x?
From: bjorn.x.larsson@telia.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Bj=c3=b6rn_Larsson?=)

Den 2015-09-28 kl. 18:53, skrev Levi Morrison:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Thomas Hruska <thruska@cubiclesoft.com> wrote:
>> On 9/28/2015 1:29 AM, S.A.N wrote:
>>> Are there any future plans for - async/await?
>>> This need to know now, not to use these words to constants, and class
>>> names...
>>
>> async/await is the single greatest addition to modern application
>> development in the last 20 years.  Every language needs these features.
>> Microsoft completely solved the core problems surrounding multithreaded
>> programming with the concepts behind these two keywords.
> While not disputing this claim I think PHP should only reserve words
> when there are somewhat concrete plans for their use. There have been
> talks and draft RFCs for things like void returns and union types with
> Foo | null, so reserving `void` and `null` makes sense. Perhaps there
> is a massive effort somewhere off-list but I am not aware of any plans
> on implementing async/await in PHP.
In the interview with Dmitry asynchronous behaviour was
mentioned as one key area for the future, see:
- 
https://blog.amasty.com/php-7-and-script-languages-future-insights-from-lead-zend-com-developer

Hope it materialises some day!

Regards //Björn