This is a repo where I keep ideas and RFC drafts for changes to PHP.

Discussions are not accepted on this repo and must be held on the PHP internals list. The only PRs that will be accepted are typo and wording improvements, or when I have explicitly requested suggestions.

Note: if an RFC is published it will follow the license of the PHP Wiki.

Use the md-to-dokuwiki.php script to generate DokuWiki text that mostly works without edits from a markdown file.

• Container/offset semantics overhaul

These are in no particular order, but they are RFCs that I want to work on sooner than later

• Comparison semantics overhaul
• PDOException, fix code property being a string
• Deprecate implicit conversions from resource to string
• Remove assumption about multiplication * being commutative
• Remove usage of SPL extensions in other internal extensions
• Warn when int to float loses precision introduce SAFE_INTEGER constant like JS
• Change eval() to a function that can be disabled
• Make void an alias for null
• Object serialization overhaul
• Warn when attempting to destructure scalars

• Meta RFC transform empty into a function
• Remove old DBA handlers
• Deprecate bool to string implicit coercions
• Deprecate InfiniteIterator
• Deprecate implicit conversions to bool in function type juggling context
• Deprecate control-flow structures in finally blocks
• Stop requiring parameter names in PHP interface methods
• Function types

These are RFCs ideas that have been suggested during discussion offline or on the list

• Split exit() and die() into distinct functions where die() only take strings and exit() only takes integers.

• Change exit() to function