Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE]

On 27 July 2026 11:31:53 BST, "Gina P=2E Banyard" <internals@gpb=2Emoe> wro=
te:
>Hello internals,
>
>As announced last week I've opened the vote for the 8=2E6 mass deprecatio=
n RFC:
>https://wiki=2Ephp=2Enet/rfc/deprecations_php_8_6


Since Juliette kindly added some raw usage data, but proposers have refuse=
d to spend any time looking at it, I would like to point out that one of th=
e uses found for "is" as a keyword is in Hamcrest, a cross-language test as=
sertion framework=2E The PHP version has 500 million installs tracked by Pa=
ckagist=2E

The is() function is part of the design inherited from the original Java l=
ibrary, and is used in many of the examples in the README so is likely to b=
e widely used in the wild: https://github=2Ecom/hamcrest/hamcrest-php#usage

I think we should think very carefully whether we can avoid disrupting tha=
t much code=2E


Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]