On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 1:53 PM Tim Düsterhus <t...@bastelstu.be> wrote:
> Hi > > On 7/20/24 18:40, Juliette Reinders Folmer wrote: > > Tim, you're making my point for me. This is *exactly* why the current > > change should be reverted. > > I am not sure how you read "PHP users have no idea what a token is" as > an argument in favor of reverting the change, because reverting the > change means that completely reasonable code suddenly stops working with > a parser error in a patch version and PHP users will rightfully come to > PHP's issue tracker to complain. > Is there any evidence that PHP users are relying on code that: - Was released just 7 months ago - Was not documented - Nobody knew about it until very recently And furthermore, why should undocumented, unintentional, unapproved change to PHP be supported? Even if a handful of folks come to PHP's issue tracker to complain, the answer is plain and simple: that behavior was not approved by PHP's RFC process, which is the only way to get a behavior change introduced into the language. Realistically, it's highly questionable that such hypothetical users would even show up. -- Marco Deleu
