On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 5:08 PM Andreas Heigl <andr...@heigl.org> wrote:
> Hey Nikita, hey all > > Am 13.05.19 um 16:05 schrieb Nikita Popov: > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 3:32 PM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hi internals, > >> > >> I've already brought up this topic on list a couple of weeks ago... I've > >> now updated the implementation based on feedback at the time, and turned > >> this into a proper RFC: > >> > >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/tostring_exceptions > >> > >> Regards, > >> Nikita > >> > > > > If there's no more comments here, I'd like to start voting on this RFC > > tomorrow. > > As the change is technically a BC-break (as you state in the RFC) I > wondered why the target is PHP7.4 and not 8. > > So far I didn't find a discussion on that but I might not have dug deep > enough. So if this has already been discussed then I'd really appreciate > a hint to the discussion. > The target is 7.4 because the BC break is minimal and largely theoretical. I think the main affected code will be Symfony's existing hack around the issue -- they'll have to disable the hack for PHP >= 7.4 and just use the native support. Nikita
