In this episode of "PHP Internals News" we're looking back at all the RFCs that we discussed on this podcast for PHP 7.4, but did not end up making the cut. In their own words, the RFC authors explain what these features are, with your host interjecting his own comments on the state of affairs.

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Episode 1: Saner string to number comparisons

Episode 5: Comprehensions

Episodes 8 and 23: Deprecating Short Open Tags

Episode 10: LSP and Operator Precedence

Episode 15: base_convert() Improvements

Episode 18: Strict Operator Directive

Episode 21: str_starts_with() and friends

Music: Chipper Doodle v2 — Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0