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ProgrammingAnother exciting PHP 8.5 feature: Closures can now be used as constant expressions, allowing them to appear as default parameters or attribute values.
Series: New in PHP 8.5
PHP 8.5 brings a range of new features, improvements, and smaller tweaks to the language. In this blog series, I'm going through all of them — one post per topic — with short explanations, examples, and some personal thoughts where relevant. If you want a no-nonsense overview of what’s coming in PHP 8.5, this series should have you covered.
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ProgrammingOne of the most exciting additions in PHP 8.5 is the pipe operator. It enables more readable and expressive code when working with nested function calls.
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ProgrammingA small but meaningful update in PHP 8.5 introduces asymmetric visibility for static properties.
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ProgrammingPHP 8.5 adds support for final properties using constructor promotion. In this (very short) article, I’ll show you everything you need to know about this new addition.
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ProgrammingPHP 8.5 adds a new function for calculating the Levenshtein distance between strings — now with proper UTF-8 support.
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ProgrammingPHP 8.5 introduces support for attributes on non-class constants. This article walks you through everything you need to know about this new feature!
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ProgrammingToday, we'll explore one of the exciting features coming with PHP 8.5—the new #[NoDiscard] attribute to indicate important return values.