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Macros-like in PHP 7.2 using Arrow Functions - 5 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 81 By Manuel Lemos One of the features proposed for PHP 7.2 or next PHP version is the arrow functions. This is somewhat similar to the macros that exist in other languages, although it is not exactly the same thing. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 81 of the Lately in PHP podcast. In this episode they also talked about other proposals for future PHP versions like Deprecating bare words that are used as constant strings often by mistake, type checking when calling shared libraries with the FFI extension, a generic HMAC hashing function, namespaces for core extensions, support for strings with national characters for PDO prepared statements . This article also contains a podcast summary as a text transcript and a 5 minute video of the summary. Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.