On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 08:03 -0400, Michael Morris wrote: > While breaking backwards compatibility for its own sake is bad, avoiding it > to keep a bug in the system is worse in my opinion. And again, this is a > bug. If the way PHP associates could be used for something that would be > different, but it can't. I honestly doubt any code even exists that takes > advantage of the current behavior.
What you are suggesting is not just "breaking BC" but "Changing behavior of code in a hard to debug way" as previously working code will suddenly start to do something else than expected probably without emitting any error. If you want this to run this requires a clear migration strategy for the billions of lines of code out there. Till this is provided please help focusing on things we can actually improve, like testing PHP 7 to make sure it will be a stable release. Thanks, johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
