What are some new features introduced in PHP7?

Pradeep Maurya
  1. Zend Engine 3 performance improvements and 64-bit integer support on Windows
  2. uniform variable syntax AST-based compilation process
  3. added Closure::call()
  4. bitwise shift consistency across platforms
  5. (null coalesce) operator
  6. Unicode codepoint escape syntax
  7. return type declarations
  8. and scalar type (integer, float, string and boolean) declarations.

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