Re: Proposal to deprecate create_function()

From: Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:38:38 +0000
Subject: Re: Proposal to deprecate create_function()
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On 18/10/2013 15:16, Pierre Joye wrote:

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Rowan Collins <[email protected]> wrote:

The absolute earliest this would actually be removed would be in 5.7,
sometime in 2015. In fact, deprecating now but not expecting removal to be
possible until 5.8 / 2016 seems reasonable to me.

I don't think we can ever remove it in 5.x.


Is there a particular rule that separates the kind of BC breaks that are possible between 5.x releases vs those which would require bumping the major version? It is absolutely not the case that a program written for PHP 5.0 can be guaranteed to run under PHP 5.5 without modification.

I thought PHP version numbers couldn't really be considered semantic like that, ever since PHP 6 was abandoned, and major language features from it were dropped into PHP 5.3 and 5.4. The current release policy could plausibly continue indefinitely, with a 5.13 in 2021; "never" is a long time...

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Rowan Collins
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