For rationale, see #6787
Extensions migrated in part 4:
* simplexml
* skeleton
* soap
* spl
* sqlite3
* sysvmsg
* sysvsem
* tidy - also removed a check for an ancient dependency version
This reverts commit bb43a3822e.
After thinking about this a bit more, this is now going to be
a complete solution for the "readonly properties" case, for example:
unset($foo->readOnly->bar);
should also be legal and
$foo->readOnly['bar'] = 42;
should also be legal if $foo->readOnly is not an array but an
ArrayAccess object.
I think it may be better to distinguish better on the BP_VAR flag
level. Reverting for now.
$a->b->c = 'd';
is now compiled the same way as
$b = $a->b;
$b->c = 'd';
That is, we perform a read fetch on $a->b, rather than a write
fetch.
This is possible, because PHP 8 removed auto-vivification support
for objects, so $a->b->c = 'd' may no longer modify $a->b proper
(i.e. not counting interior mutability of the object).
Closes GH-5250.
