Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Default expression

[John Coggeshall]

On Aug 26 2024, at 2:39 pm, Bilge <bi...@scriptfusion.com> wrote:
>
> I like this approach. I'm still not sure I'd want to pursue adding 
> exclusions, but if we can identify something that's obviously bad and/or 
> dangerous then we can consider that short list for exclusion. That is much 
> more compelling than starting out by banning everything and arbitrarily 
> whitelisting those things someone personally has a use for.
Perhaps the answer could be to only allow the use of default when the assigned 
default value is a scalar value -- no objects, arrays, enums, etc (and no mixed 
).. It seems like a compromise that accomplishes a healthy portion of the 
stated use-cases while avoiding many of the foot-guns scenarios.
Coogle
(PS - I'm going to start signing off with my old-skool nickname around here, 
feel free to reference me using it to disambiguate since there are multiple 
Johns)