Hi! > But is there a strong reason to keep it forever, especially considering its
Yes. It's the same reason - "no reason to remove". When we have action which on one hand has no tangible benefit and on the other hand has tangible harm, we should not do it. > decline in usage? Perhaps by targeting it for removal in 8.0 we can > mitigate the impact of such a BC break while taking one small step in > improving the language over time. By the time of 8.0 nothing would be different from today. 8.0 is not some magic number by which old code ceases to exist. -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
