[PHP-DEV] RFC Karma request

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Hello internals,

Following up on the pre RFC discussion here:
https://externals.io/message/130114

I would like to request RFC karma to formally propose the deprecation of a small set of legacy type alias functions:

  • is_double as an alias of is_float
  • is_integer and is_long as aliases of is_int
  • doubleval as an alias of floatval

My wiki username is: jkroon

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Hi Jordi

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 11:01 PM Jordi Kroon <jordikroon@me.com> wrote:

I would like to request RFC karma

RFC karma was granted. Good luck!

Ilija

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Hi

Am 2026-02-26 23:00, schrieb Jordi Kroon:

I would like to request RFC karma to formally propose the deprecation of a small set of legacy type alias functions:

• is_double as an alias of is_float
• is_integer and is_long as aliases of is_int
• doubleval as an alias of floatval

You'll need RFC karma either way, but it's probably best to include that as part of the PHP 8.6 bulk deprecation RFC. It's a small follow-up to a previous deprecation and it's probably not useful to discuss and vote that one on its own, since the discussion probably is not going to be particularly insightful.

The current draft for the bulk deprecation RFC is here: PHP: rfc:deprecations_php_8_6

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus