On Thu, Dec 4, 2025, at 10:46 AM, Larry Garfield wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2025, at 2:13 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:
>> Arnaud and I would like to present another RFC for consideration:
>> Context Managers.
>>
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/context-managers
>>
>> You'll probably note that is very similar to the recent proposal from
>> Tim and Seifeddine. Both proposals grew out of casual discussion
>> several months ago; I don't believe either team was aware that the
>> other was also actively working on such a proposal, so we now have two.
>> C'est la vie. :-)
>>
>> Naturally, Arnaud and I feel that our approach is the better one. In
>> particular, as Arnaud noted in an earlier reply, __destruct() is
>> unreliable if timing matters. It also does not allow differentiating
>> between a success or failure exit condition, which for many use cases
>> is absolutely mandatory (as shown in the examples in the context
>> manager RFC).
>>
>> The Context Manager proposal is a near direct port of Python's
>> approach, which is generally very well thought-out. However, there are
>> a few open questions as listed in the RFC that we are seeking feedback
>> on.
>>
>> Discuss. :-)
>
> More updates to Context Managers:
>
> * We have added "masking" for the context variable, using essentially
> the same technique as the block scope RFC.
> * We have added support for `try using`, as a shorthand for when you
> want to wrap a try-catch-finally around a using statement anyway.
>
> More details of both are in the RFC.
>
> As no one seems to have a strong opinion on `continue`, we will most
> likely proceed with the current approach of matching `switch` behavior.
>
> There doesn't seem to be much interest in making `using` an expression,
> which I find unfortunate, but that means we'll probably drop that.
> Fortunately it is probably possible to change in the future if the need
> arises (the way `throw` was changed).
>
> --Larry Garfield
Since the only feedback on what to use for "as" was that => makes sense, we
have changed the RFC to use => instead. So the new syntax is
using (new CM() => $cVar) {
// Do stuff here.
}
--Larry Garfield
