Roadmap: add 'Beyond v3.x' strategic directions#21
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Captures the design space past the Path B package split so future decisions sit against an explicit menu rather than getting invented ad hoc: - §9 CLDR plural categories — lifts the English-binary assumption, rides on ext-intl / Unicode CLDR. One new method, locales delegate category resolution to MessageFormatter/NumberFormatter. - §10 Morphology expansion — verb conjugation, indefinite articles, ordinals, case/gender. Scope creep; would change the product's identity. - §11 Locale data quality — test corpora (Wiktionary/UniMorph) with CI accuracy metrics; optional ML fallback via ONNX/FFI. - §12 Ecosystem — Symfony/Laravel bridges, composer-plugin locale discovery, benchmark-as-identity against Doctrine/Symfony. Headline recommendation: §9 if we pick one — scoped, ext-intl-based, doesn't change the library's identity but makes the current product genuinely multilingual. Explicitly framed as "not commitments — captured so the decision space is explicit when we get there." Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* Roadmap: lock §5a locale design; reflect shipped §6/§7/§8 work Convert the §5a "Open design questions" into resolved decisions so implementation can start without a round-trip: - Locale is an abstract class holding rule tables as protected instance state, with a concrete regex-rule engine shared across subclasses. Bare Locale interface deferred to a later revision if needed for exotic morphologies. - Rule-table visibility: protected (not private — subclasses seed them; not public — we moved away from mutable shared state in 2.0). Defaults come from protected const class constants on subclasses. - Caching: per-instance, not global. Extension methods mutate instance state and invalidate the instance cache. - Default locale: the static API always uses En. No global setDefaultLocale — avoids action-at-a-distance. - Instance API: new Inflect(Locale|string $locale = 'en'). Inflect::registerLocale(name, LocaleOrClassString) for third parties. Resolution is lazy. - Back-compat: static methods keep signatures; internally delegate to a lazily-initialized shared En instance. Proxy extension methods mutate that shared instance. Also reflect ship state: - §6 docs: largely shipped in #19. - §7 tooling: phpstan + cs-fixer shipped in #18; infection/phpbench deferred. - §8: v2.0.0 tagged 2026-04-13. - Phasing: v2.1 now merges items 5 + 5a (they share the same API surface); v2.2 becomes "add a non-English locale"; v3.x remains the conditional Path B split. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * Roadmap: add "Beyond v3.x" section with four strategic directions (#21) Captures the design space past the Path B package split so future decisions sit against an explicit menu rather than getting invented ad hoc: - §9 CLDR plural categories — lifts the English-binary assumption, rides on ext-intl / Unicode CLDR. One new method, locales delegate category resolution to MessageFormatter/NumberFormatter. - §10 Morphology expansion — verb conjugation, indefinite articles, ordinals, case/gender. Scope creep; would change the product's identity. - §11 Locale data quality — test corpora (Wiktionary/UniMorph) with CI accuracy metrics; optional ML fallback via ONNX/FFI. - §12 Ecosystem — Symfony/Laravel bridges, composer-plugin locale discovery, benchmark-as-identity against Doctrine/Symfony. Headline recommendation: §9 if we pick one — scoped, ext-intl-based, doesn't change the library's identity but makes the current product genuinely multilingual. Explicitly framed as "not commitments — captured so the decision space is explicit when we get there." Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Stacked on #20. Captures the design space past the Path B package split so future decisions sit against an explicit menu rather than getting invented ad hoc.
Four themes, ranked by identity impact
Headline recommendation (documented inline)
If exactly one theme: §9. Scoped, standards-backed, doesn't change the product's identity but lifts its ceiling from "English-ish" to "genuinely multilingual."
Framing
Explicitly captured as "not commitments — captured here so the decision space is explicit when we get there." Future us reads one document and knows the options.
Test plan
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