PHP 8 in 8 Code Blocks

Brent has been following the PHP releases and featured up close. In this post he highlights 8 of the features that will make it into PHP 8

1. Attributes (aka Annotations)
2. Union types
3. The static return type
4. The just-in-time Compiler
5. throw in Expressions
6. Non-capturing catches
7. Trailing commas in parameter lists
8. New str_* functions

As a bonus he also adds the new Stringable interface and the ability to call ::class directly on objects.

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