Big Sur wasn't the only system change over the last few days. The Ed Adams website also received notification of changes to PHP (Personal Home Page). I fastidiously implemented the latest version for several of my sites, but then had to revert to the prior version, when I discovered that a few of my sites simply disappeared. So I'm running on PHP7.4, instead of the very latest - released today - PHP 8.0.
However, I looked through the system descriptions for the PHP 8 changes, I realise that they will make some cracking chapter headings in my next novel. It has a working title of "Corrupt" and a plot-line that, I think, is almost imaginable, especially with some of the latest Gove denials about passporting.
Anyway - Inheritance with Private Methods - has got to be a chapter about some ways that my fictitious characters pass on their property to others.
Then there is Constructor Property Promotion. This can be a chapter featuring dodgy property deals, agreed over a handshake and a wink.
Then there is Allowing Class on Objects. This can be transformed into a riff about the wrong school tie, or similar.
Phew, I'll leave this one to the imagination for the moment, but it could make a whip-smart chapter title about Belgravia townhouses.
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