hugot, 11 months ago

@nunomaduro isn't this what abstract classes are for?

alessandrolai, 11 months ago

@hugot @nunomaduro with an abstract class you're locked into inheritance, but not with an interface

shaedrich, 11 months ago

@alessandrolai @hugot @nunomaduro PHP has its reasons why it doesn't have multiple inheritance. So this looks like kind of a hack to me.

Girgias, 11 months ago

@nunomaduro I'd argue the issue is more how close to feature freeze this is being proposed/voted on rather than the feature itself.

But who knows with internals.

ramsey, 11 months ago

@Girgias @nunomaduro I think this is it. There’s so much back channel discussion going on right now, which means we didn’t really discuss it enough on the mailing list. I’m at fault for not paying attention and raising issues, when it was time to do so.

The good news is that, if it fails this time around, we can take more time with it and vote on it again for 8.4.

Girgias, 11 months ago

@ramsey @nunomaduro I mean, same here. I was busy with pushing (some of) my own RFCs over the line.

But then also there are others (e.g. function autoloading) I/we decided to postpone because it's not like rushing something in is going to make it better.

Now, I do find the release process of a PHP version ridiculously long (alpha 1 is in June and RC is end November/December, that's 6 months...)

ramsey, 11 months ago

@Girgias @nunomaduro I think we could cut out a couple RCs and an alpha and beta, maybe.

timwolla, 11 months ago

@Girgias @nunomaduro Yeah, there are currently 6 votes in progress (which are approximately 4 too many) and that proposal is certainly sufficiently non-trivial to warrant careful consideration.