On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 1:18 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi internals, > > I'd like to propose the deprecation (in PHP 7.3) and removal (in PHP 8) of > case-insensitive constants: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/case_insensitive_constant_deprecation > > This was already discussed some time ago on the list, though that > discussion degenerated into unfortunate directions. I'd very much > appreciate if we could keep discussions on making PHP fully case-sensitive > or fully case-insensitive outside of this thread. (Feel free to open a new > one though.) > > The main point I'd like to have feedback on is the handling of true, false > and null, as I'm not sure what the best approach regarding that is. > > Regards, > Nikita > Based on the received feedback, the RFC now specifies that true/false/null will become reserved keywords rather than special-cased constants in PHP 8. Should we run into some unexpected BC issues while doing that, we can reconsider adding some special checks to mitigate impact. Nikita
