This might be a small thing. But I think this is a very good indicator how poorly thought out the features that are being added to the language. I could catch this by a casual glance at the new features. Imagine how many horrors will be hidden deep in it.

I am making this post to make people look into the matter and to decide for themselves if they want to subscribe to the hype php's marketing machinery is generating for version 7. Also, this shows how the community views these issues. They just don't see anything wrong with it.

Posts like this that exposes bad things about the langauge are downvoted and posters often banned without a warning from /r/php.

Even civil comments that speak against big names in the community are blindly downvoted and hidden. See this thread [1].

So just be warned. The language is as bad as ever. The community, even the best part of it, is still ages behind. Both in thought and in practices.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/3j4p3u/rfc_short_closures_for_71/cumnfs6