Hi everyone, I've just opened a pull request for some changes to *extract()* handling of *$this* https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/4133
I had a look through the original RFC discussion, and it looks like extract() was brought up and then quickly handled, but it seems like the handling was a bit over the top. https://externals.io/message/93457 As reported in the below bug, extract() throws an exception when the documentation suggests that it should be able to handle the scenario (either by ignoring the request to overwrite *$this* or by creating a prefixed version of it). https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77135 The only one I'm unsure of is the *IF_EXISTS* flags, as *$this* isn't in the symbol table it's ignored even though technical *$this* does exist. But as this is the current behaviour and doesn't cause an issue I thought for BC it would be best to leave this behaviour alone. Does anybody disagree with this change? Does it need an RFC?
