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Allow loading extensions by name

Author
Target
7.2
This RFC proposes a unified way to configure the list of PHP extensions to load.

Allow loading extensions by name

Yes
No
Yes
17 Votes (81%)
No
4 Votes (19%)

Generalize support of negative string offsets

Author
Target
7.1
In most PHP functions, providing a negative value as string offset means 'n positions counted backwards from the end of the string'. This mechanism is widely us...

Generalize support of negative string offsets

Yes
No
Yes
28 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)

coercive_sth

Yes
No
Yes
27 Votes (38%)
No
44 Votes (62%)

Type parsing modifications

Author
This RFC proposes changes in the ruleset used to filter and convert input arguments to internal functions.

Implementing Design by Contract

Author
For more than 10 years (since PHP 5 was released), the PHP core community has seen a lot of discussions about strict vs loose typing, type hinting and related f...