Hmm.. PHP is a pile of crap for sure. Im wondering about this, as i have to maintain a legacy PHP project. The thing is if it were to be rewritten PHP would not be the choice. Tht seems like an improvement but it should be mixable with the old php.<p>Its such a shame PHP became what it is today, its mostly unmaintainable and has very obscure bugs (eg. datetime) that no test will cover. So i recon tht has the same bugs still. A new syntax is not enough to save PHP from itself.<p>However, i will look into this and see if is an actual improvement and helps in the long run.