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What's new in PHP 8.1Category: PHP, PHP
Scout APM helps PHP developers pinpoint N+1 queries, memory leaks & more so you can troubleshoot fast & get back to coding faster. PHP 8.1 is currently in active development and will probably be released somewhere around the end of November 2021.
To give you a quick preview of what they would look like, here's a code sample: And this is how they would be used: While PHP 8.1 is a minor version, there will be some changes that might technically be a breaking change, and deprecations as well.
We can conclude the impact of this — technically breaking — change will be low, which is why internals decided to add it in PHP 8.1.
For example, this is currently possible: In PHP 8.1, these kinds of errors will throw a deprecation warning, in PHP 9 they will be converted to type errors.
To give you a quick preview of what they would look like, here's a code sample: And this is how they would be used: While PHP 8.1 is a minor version, there will be some changes that might technically be a breaking change, and deprecations as well.
We can conclude the impact of this — technically breaking — change will be low, which is why internals decided to add it in PHP 8.1.
For example, this is currently possible: In PHP 8.1, these kinds of errors will throw a deprecation warning, in PHP 9 they will be converted to type errors.
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