Le jeudi 10 mars 2016, 10:28:58 Tony Marston a écrit : > It is perfectly legitimate to question the competence, professionalism, and > intelligence of any individual (or group) who seeks to break BC for NO GOOD > REASON other than personal preference.
> I don't mind a language that evolves with the addition of new features > provided that I am not forced to use them. What I, and huge numbers of other > developers, *DO* mind is to have code which worked perfectly with the > previous version suddenly break with the new version FOR NO GOOD REASON. > "Improving" the language should NOT involve rewriting it to conform to > today's fashion or fad. Introducing BC breaks for NO GOOD REASON should be > outlawed. > This is why I fully expect the take-up of PHP 7 to be > very slow. Take up would be much faster if only you un-clever not-first-rate > meddlers would stop breaking the language for NO GOOD REASON. Oh, it’s okay then, because we want to remove the var keyword FOR A GOOD REASON, so we should be fine. Note that I’m not sure who this «we» is, I’m using «we» because you said «you», but I had nothing to do with PHP7 BC breaks. (Which are mostly a good think, BTW) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php