Deprecate autovivification on false

Deprecate autovivification on false
Deprecation
Implemented

RFC Vote: Deprecate autovivification on false

Implemented
-
>= 2/3
Yes: 34No: 2

PHP natively allows for autovivification (auto-creation of arrays from falsey values). This feature is very useful and used in a lot of PHP projects, especially if the variable is undefined. However, there is a little oddity that allows creating an array from a false and null value.

The proposal is to disallow autovivification from false values

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