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Typed properties and arrow functions are great, but I'm also happy to see the deprecations in this release. E.g. nested ternary operators without explicit parentheses (such use was almost always a mistake). Full list here: https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration74.deprecated.php. Some of the deprecations pave the way for performance improvements in PHP 8.

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> nested ternary operators without explicit parentheses

This also seems like a first step toward fixing associativity of the ternary operator, one of the most ridiculous deficiencies of the PHP language.

That's exactly the intent of this change.

"Future Scope: We could make the ternary right-associative in a later release, after it has been an error for a while."

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ternary_associativity

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