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Package
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RFC: Sealed classes
Kotlin: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/sealed-classes.html#location-of-direct-subclasses ( instead of using permits, all class within the same package are permitted, this won't work in PHP since we don't have pacakges, but if in the future we get packages, we can make it so that classes with no permit clauses are permitted to the same package - see https://github.com/Danack/Package/blob/master/rfc_words.md )
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Modules and why Namespaces are not them
Yeah....I keep coming back to a lack of modules/packages separate from namespace as being one of the things that PHP is lacking as there are a few different problems that would be possible (though not easy) to solve with them. Have some very rough words: https://github.com/Danack/Package/blob/master/rfc_words.md
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Interview with Zeev Suraski, cofounder of PHP: Perspectives on PHP, the release of PHP 8, and what it means for WordPress
It would be really good to make the 'prize' not being a thing to be fought for. Some sort of package system might be part of that.
z-engine
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Random shower thought I got: PhpStorm developers are Java developers who know PHP better than most PHP developers
There was an attempt... https://github.com/lisachenko/z-engine
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RFC: Sealed classes
Operator overloading can technically be done in userspace via FFI with https://github.com/lisachenko/z-engine (I have an active PR adding headers for 7.4 and 8.1 as well as TS) - but it's super hacky and I would love to see it actually make it into PHP proper.
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Operator Overloading RFC is in voting. What are your thoughts on this feature?
By the way, it's already possible using FFI and z-engine. I have a toy project using this: rikudou/units.
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RFC: User Defined Operator Overloads
FYI: You can already do that using FFI and z-engine (which I just found out was open-sourced).
What are some alternatives?
PHP OAuth 2.0 Server - A spec compliant, secure by default PHP OAuth 2.0 Server
reli-prof - A sampling profiler or a memory profiler for PHP written in PHP, which reads information about running PHP VM from outside the process. You can find performance bottlenecks or memory leaks of your scripts without changing the target script or loading extensions.
user-documentation - Documentation for those that use HHVM and write Hack code.
php-fuse - PHP FFI bindings for libfuse
http-message - The purpose of this PSR is to provide a set of common interfaces for HTTP messages as described in RFC 7230 and RFC 7231
laminas-code - Extensions to the PHP Reflection API, static code scanning, and code generation
PHPT - The PHP Interpreter
Symfony - The Symfony PHP framework
Laravel - Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.