Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.6

[email protected] (Tim Düsterhus) Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:19:48 +0200
Newsgroups php.internals
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi

On 2026-07-15 02:37, Garrett W. wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I'm not complaining about the lack of a full
> stop so much, but like in the example you called out, a comma is less
> appropriate there than a semicolon, em dash, or similar. If it were
> me, I'd just use a semicolon in those cases.

Okay, in that case - even though there is explicitly no guarantee in the 
stability of error messages from PHP itself - changing it to a semicolon 
would nevertheless be a break in expectations of users who have already 
leveraged the `#[\Deprecated]` attribute with a `$reason`.

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus