Hi
On 7/17/26 16:01, Holly Schilling wrote:
If we can get Structs and Duration to both land in PHP 9, I’d love to see
Duration benefit from them.
I do not consider it a good idea to delay improvements to PHP’s standard
library to wait for something that has not even left the Draft phase and
thus will take an unknown *duration* to land - if it ever happens. I
believe that improvements to the standard library are the single most
impactful thing we can do to improve PHP and we’ve done a great job in
the recent versions in doing so (e.g. with the new URI extension).
Value-based structs also do not bring significant improvements over what
we can already do with `final` and `readonly` classes. In fact, it would
likely be possible to just convert final readonly classes to value-based
structs with only very minor breaking changes if there is a desire to do so.
It's also unclear to me why this would be something that needs to wait
for PHP 9.
Best regards
Tim Düsterhus
PS: Please take care of threading, your initial email regarding your
proposal was in reply to Pierre's email regarding the `fromSeconds()`
constructor, which was incredibly confusing. See the thread view at
https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/131989.
