Re: Ruminations on PHP 5++

From: Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:18:19 +0000
Subject: Re: Ruminations on PHP 5++
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On 24/01/14 16:18, Lester Caine wrote:

Adam Harvey wrote:

Adam, who loves starting a good flame war on a Friday.

It would perhaps be nice to avoid the same mistakes that Python made
when re-factoring 3.0 and not taking the rest of the user base with
them. The level of breaking of BC needs to be carefully balanced?
And I still think that 5.4 should have been a major hike which would
have allowed a little more flexibility then.


There is a lot that PHP's 5/6 transition can learn from Python's 2/3 transition. One might be, IMO, not to backport any new features. Otherwise people will simply keep using 2/5 instead of 3/6, due to the features also being available there.

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Andrea Faulds
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