On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 1:08 PM Lynn <kja...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 6:55 PM Levi Morrison via internals <
> internals@lists.php.net> wrote:
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>> I don't know the answer to that question. However, I don't think we
>> should add a deprecation on the very first version that we add the
>> aliases anyway. I think that would make for a bad upgrade experience
>> from 8.0 to 8.1. I would leave that more for 8.3, 8.4-ish in the
>> release cycle so there are at least a few versions for people to
>> organically change their code without triggering any notices of any
>> kind.
>>
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> I would very much prefer this to be deprecated in the same version. This
> way you prevent the confusion of which of the two to use and have people
> implement the one we already know is going to be removed. Deprecations do
> not make it a bad upgrade experience at all. Quite the opposite in my
> opinion, they hint to me nice and early on which parts of the code base I
> have to adjust. The earlier the better.
>

I'm really ambivalent about when they are introduced, but I actually think
I agree with you. I know it's very much just a personal anecdote, but since
I don't turn deprecation notices on until I'm ready to actually look for
and fix them, I don't find them obtrusive at all.


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Chase Peeler
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