Frode Børli's Scope RFC gives each unit of work an identity: an HTTP request, a queue job, a CLI command. Code can key its own state by it, and secondary votes would make superglobals, session, locale and timezone follow it. @Crell called it promising.
Arsan Gamal proposed effect declarations: functions that declare they start processes, read files or touch the network. David Maye and Damian Jóźwiak asked why not attributes. @Crell: engine-enforced without opt-in is "a complete non-starter."
Ayoub Ezzini's array_partition splits an array into matching and non-matching halves in one pass, keys preserved. He kept it to two groups, since PHP casts true/false keys to 1/0. @timwolla: "well-written, well-researched and well-argued."
Votes, at recording: Sjoerd Langkemper's RFC to make hexdec, octdec, bindec and base_convert throw on invalid characters is 25–1 (closes Nov 1). Muhammed Arshid's Filter enums RFC is 2–11 (closes Nov 4).
Quick hits: Pratik Bhujel fixed the Io\Terminal bugs Sjoerd found, vote on hold. Damian postponed the CSV vote at @timwolla's request. Sjoerd proposed openssl_get_channel_binding for SCRAM-PLUS logins.
@nicolasgrekas wants SSRF blocking in curl; Levi Morrison asked why not streams too. Máté Kocsis keeps the query params length limit. Abbas proposed async/await on Fibers. And paren-less scalar extension methods got a strong -1 from @imsop.
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