The Dev Dispatch · 8.6 Vote Watch
The 8.6 Vote Watch
42 RFC ballots decide what makes it into PHP 8.6 — every vote, every voter, live from wiki.php.net, rewindable on a timeline
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# · The headline votes
one ballot each — language and object model on the lineReadonly Property Defaults
24 : 0 100% acceptedObject Property Writes on Constants
17 : 2 89% accepted# · The deprecation field · 35 ballots
35 separate ballots, each decided on its ownspl_classes()
43 : 0 100% acceptedmysqli_get_charset()
43 : 0 100% accepteddefine() case-insensitive
41 : 0 100% acceptedmysqli_stmt_init()
40 : 0 100% acceptedis_a() with string
38 : 0 100% acceptedis_subclass_of() with string
37 : 0 100% acceptedReflectionProperty wrong types
43 : 1 98% acceptedArrayIterator methods
42 : 1 98% acceptedreadonly as function name
39 : 1 98% acceptedis_double()
40 : 2 95% acceptedmb_convert_variables() objects
39 : 2 95% acceptedis_integer()
39 : 2 95% acceptedis_long()
39 : 2 95% acceptedstrcoll()
39 : 2 95% accepteddoubleval()
38 : 2 95% acceptedSORT_LOCALE_STRING flag
38 : 2 95% acceptedarray_walk() objects
41 : 3 93% acceptedreturning from finally
39 : 3 93% acceptedReflectionMethod static invoke
39 : 3 93% acceptedsession_set_save_handler() object
26 : 2 93% accepteddeflate_init() objects
39 : 4 91% acceptedzlib filter objects
38 : 4 90% acceptedbzip2 filter objects
38 : 4 90% accepted_ as constant alias
34 : 4 89% acceptedSplFileObject CSV methods
25 : 5 83% acceptednamespace as class constant
29 : 8 78% acceptedusing is
29 : 10 74% acceptedspl_object_hash()
26 : 9 74% acceptedmetaphone()
20 : 8 71% acceptedusing let
24 : 11 69% acceptedhttp_build_query() objects
21 : 10 68% accepteddechunk filter
18 : 15 55% declinedlist() construct
23 : 23 50% declined_() alias for gettext()
10 : 22 31% declinedin / out / inout identifiers
8 : 21 28% declined# · Already decided
closed while this report was in the makingTime\Duration
35 : 1
acceptedDuration method names
30 : 2
decidedautoconf 2.71
27 : 2
acceptedCOM_RESET_CONNECTION
26 : 0
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