On 10/04/12 19:22, Chris Stockton wrote: > Hello, > I understand your point that you are trying to make, but forward > compatibility I am not sure shares the same critical nature as > backwards. Sure, but if we can help with that when designing the feature, that's much better, and I think would also ecourage into using it.
> I think a software provider who is aiming at supporting a > wide variety of php versions is likely going to code around the lowest > common denominator. If they can easily work around it, it's much easier they start using it soon than waiting for when common web hostings stop providing 5.4. > Even still, if they chose to they could have two > bootstrap files, one that included files with the new features and one > with the old. Of course, they still could, but is more troublesome. Specially if as you suggest, they need to keep two files in sync. In that case it's probably easier to keep without the new features. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
