Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:91280 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 78290 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2016 19:33:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Feb 2016 19:33:49 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 176.252.240.115 unknown Received: from [176.252.240.115] ([176.252.240.115:7145] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 20/E2-62769-79C16C65 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:33:48 -0500 Message-ID: <20.E2.62769.79C16C65@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net References: Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:33:38 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 SeaMonkey/2.39 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 176.252.240.115 Subject: Re: [RFC Proposal] var keyword deprecation/removal From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) Hi Colin, Colin O'Dell wrote: > I'd like to propose an RFC to deprecate and eventually remove the "var" > keyword. I don't have a strong opinion on that, I guess I'm in favour. It seems like a fairly harmless deprecation. Though if we do get rid of the var syntax, I'd like it if we kept the reserved word, because it still might be useful in future for typed variables or different variable scoping. Thanks! -- Andrea Faulds https://ajf.me/