Re:PHP RFC: Deprecate ${} string interpolation
by Supermancho on Friday May 06, 2022 @10:14PM
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> The whole "never break user land/space" axiom that the PHP core used to follow isn't healthy for the language
I would say it's not healthy for most languages.
Perhaps it can also be renamed "SHP" (strict homepage processor)
Why would anyone prefer a tool dead set on undoing their productive investments with each new release? Decisions like this are a massive red flag. It doesn't allow the feature to be removed (interpolation still exists and isn't going away), I doubt it simplifies the code much, it just breaks existing projects out of essentially a stylistic preference. That's not a tool I'd ever want to depend on
Having 7 different methods to do string interpolation is not "productive and accessible", it's confusing and prone to abuse.
The whole "never break user land/space" axiom that the PHP core used to follow isn't healthy for the language, and I'm glad we're moving away from it.
I want PHP to grow into a more modern and stricter language, and I can understand that iterating fast and deprecating old behavior is part of that evolution.