Hi Rob, > It will make it hard or impossible to justify adding something to PHP that > isn’t in Perl. The fact that they’re different is a boon and a curse. That > being said, nobody has really changed this or proposed anything PHP specific > in a long time.
That's right. However, if I'm correct, the proposed change in this RFC _should_ be the last addition as all types of data and endianness should be supported. But I get your point indeed, it would set a "legal precedent" on something that may not need one. > Which begs the question, what will be the next version of PHP? 9.0 or 8.6? The next version is likely to be 8.6. The 8.5 branch has been cut this week and the NEWS file now targets 8.6 on master when we (up)merge changes. — Alexandre Daubois
