PHP 8.4 / Status of "Saner Increment/Decrement operator" part 2 ?

> On Tuesday, 17 September 2024 at 19:04, Juliette Reinders Folmer > <php-internals_nospam@adviesenzo.nl> wrote: >> L.s., >> >> I was just looking at the "Path to Saner Increment/Decrement >> operators" RFC [1] and as part of the proposal, step 2 "Deprecate >> using the increment operator with non-numeric strings." should have >> gone into PHP 8.4, but I can't find anything about this deprecation >> having been added in PHP 8.4 in the UPGRADING docs. >> >> Anyone around who can tell me what the status is ? >> >> Smile, >> Juliette >> >> >> 1: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/saner-inc-dec-operators > > As Christoph has already said, the RFC indicated PHP 8.X where X is > greater than 3. > So no it did not need to land in 8.4. > > Considering that I personally find it unlikely that the next version > is going to be 9.0 (now I may be wrong but we don't really have any > strong indications for doing this bump) and people were already > uncomfortable at the timeline I proposed when the RFC got voted; > I found it better to let another deprecation free version for people > to move to str_increment(). > > I did not forget about this and had it on the planned list of things > to tackle for PHP 8.5. >