On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 4:33 PM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:52 AM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi internals, >> >> Inspired by the recent discussion on reserved keyword reservation, I'd >> like to propose the following RFC: >> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaced_names_as_token >> >> This RFC makes two related changes: Treat namespaced names as a single >> token, which enables use of reserved keywords inside them. And remove >> reserved keyword restrictions from various declarations. >> >> The RFC comes with a small backwards compatibility break related to names >> that include whitespace, but will hopefully reduce the backwards >> compatibility impact of future reserved keyword additions. >> > > I have reduced the scope of this RFC to handle just the issue of > namespaced names, without touching any other reserved keyword restrictions. > As the discussion shows, those are trickier, with more cases of perceived > ambiguity that may need to be mitigated. > > As this proposal is now a prerequisite for > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/shorter_attribute_syntax, I have heard from a > disturbing number of people that they might vote against this proposal, not > because they disagree with it, but because that would prevent the adoption > of the @@ attribute syntax. I'm not sure what to do about that... > Heads up: I plan to open voting on this proposal tomorrow, unless there is further feedback. Nikita
