On Wed, Nov. 20, 2024 at 11:38 Larry Garfield wrote: > Unless it's causing parser issues somewhere I don't think we *need* to > address it. Maybe just document that one really shouldn't use it, and it's > only there for legacy reasons. That said, if someone wants to go to the work > of removing it, I'd probably support it.
I don't feel particularly strongly about it, but I am inclined to write an RFC to deprecate it, since removing some of these little-known legacy syntaxes makes the language cleaner and less confusing, and sometimes can even pave the way for future features. For example, the curly brace syntax for accessing array elements and string offsets was deprecated in PHP 7.4,[1] and if I recall this made possible the property hooks syntax we have now in PHP 8.4. Sincerely, Theodore [1]: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_curly_braces_array_access
