On 27 July 2026 11:31:53 BST, "Gina P. Banyard" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello internals, > >As announced last week I've opened the vote for the 8.6 mass deprecation RFC: >https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_6
Since Juliette kindly added some raw usage data, but proposers have refused to spend any time looking at it, I would like to point out that one of the uses found for "is" as a keyword is in Hamcrest, a cross-language test assertion framework. The PHP version has 500 million installs tracked by Packagist. The is() function is part of the design inherited from the original Java library, and is used in many of the examples in the README so is likely to be widely used in the wild: https://github.com/hamcrest/hamcrest-php#usage I think we should think very carefully whether we can avoid disrupting that much code. Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]
