On 24 May 2025 10:08:46 BST, "马正强" <a766650...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello internals,
>
>I’d like to propose adding with as a full alias for the namespace-related
>use keyword in PHP.
...
> - Does this improvement warrant an RFC?
> - Are there objections to the concept or keyword choice?
It would certainly need an RFC in order to add, because it's a core language
change. Adding a new keyword generally requires reserving it in at least some
contexts, so the backward compatibility impact would need to be made clear in
any RFC as well.
Personally, though, I don't see any advantage at all. Both keywords seem
equally arbitrary, and the existing syntax has been established for over a
decade at this point. Having two ways to write the same thing is likely to
confuse new users about whether they do different things, and there won't be
any incentive for existing code to change from one to the other, especially
since they won't be able to for several years if they support multiple PHP
versions.
As for other languages, they use all sorts of different keywords for the same
or similar features, e.g. "import" and "using", so it's not like PHP is a weird
outlier here.
Regards,
Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]
