A generator may return a value as well as yielding, and the value is only readable after the generator has finished. The pattern is useful for a summary…
A path repository symlinks a local directory into vendor, so a change to the package is visible immediately without a version, a tag or a push. The symlink…
Boolean mode has no fifty per cent threshold and no meaningful relevance score, so results come back in whatever order the index produced them. The scoring being a…
6.1 adds argument and return value resolution that removes the serialisation boilerplate from a controller action. Moving serialisation out of the action makes the controller shorter and moves…
rand and mt_rand are seeded generators whose output is predictable from a small number of samples, and they are still the first result for “php random number”. The…
clone copies the initialised state of a readonly property, so modifying the copy throws and every wither has to construct a new instance. The verbosity compounds: a value…
The filesystem abstraction moved from returning false on failure to throwing, and Laravel 9 wraps that in a setting rather than a change. Defaulting to the old behaviour…