Nikita Popov wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Christoph Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de>
> wrote:
> 
>> I've noticed that the "Reserve Even More Types in PHP 7" RFC[1] has been
>> moved to "Process and Policy" with the comment "needs no impl".
> 
> I've moved the RFC based on Sara's mail in the voting thread [1]. Quoting:
> 
>> There's no language in the RFC about
>> actually throwing errors or other code-breaking behavior.  Therefore,
>> even should all of them pass, it does *NOT* mean that your code using
>> these names suddenly stops working on PHP7.  It means that you have
>> been warned that using the names of intrinsics is a bad idea, and that
>> the language reserves the /right/ to make doing so an error at some
>> point in the future.
> 
> I also know that at least some of the votes were cast under the assumption
> that this is just a "documentation" reservation, as opposed to throwing
> errors.

Thanks for the explanation.  I must have missed (or simply forgotten
about) this mail.  The voters have probably more carefully followed the
discussion, so enforcing the reservation by convention has been part of
the decision.

> [1]: http://markmail.org/message/3zehjdlvuhv5sosq

-- 
Christoph M. Becker


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