The PHP internals mailing list is discussing the RFC for deprecations planned for PHP 8.6. Gina P. Banyard announced the RFC, noting each deprecation will be voted on individually and the RFC must be frozen by July 13th. Key discussion points include: Juliette Reinders Folmer raising concerns that none of the proposals include proper impact analyses; Osama Aldemeery sharing impact analysis data for the return-in-finally deprecation (affects only 12 places across 9 of the top 5000 Composer packages); debate over deprecating the _() alias for gettext() as potentially very disruptive; questions about deprecating CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION given its wide use in libraries like Guzzle and Symfony, with a suggestion to internally remap it to CURLOPT_XFERINFOFUNCTION instead; and disagreement over deprecating the 'let' identifier and the by-reference return modifier inheritance change.
