Juliette

Is it the place of a **_coding standard_** to forbid using a deprecated syntax ? In my opinion, this is not a code style issue, but a language issue and...

> The question of semi-colons in a in/out switch statement like that... seems more like an issue for internals, since they may not have realized that would be impacted. This...

> The coding standards have long said not to use certain rarely-used or problematic syntaxes. "rarely-used" and "problematic" are highly subjective terms in this case, as they depend 100% on...

Loosely related to: https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/issues/3808

Okay, so I've had a look at this and as I suspected there are some issues which should be fixed. I'm currently undecided on how to fix these. I'm fully...

Original polyfill discussion and PR tickets: * https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/issues/1513 * https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/pull/1524

@fredden Good input. Thanks for that. I'll have to think it over. Main reason why I didn't include that option in the original list is because if makes the gap...

I've opened an [issue in PHP Core](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/14926) to ask whether the PHP 8.3 change was intentional or should be regarded as a bug. The answer to that should help inform...

The issue in PHP Core has now escalated to PHP Internals: https://externals.io/message/124462

There is a proposal open to change the tokenization (yet) again now in PHP 8.4, without reverting the previous change: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/15041 This is just complicating things even more as it...