> `stdClass` can't die due to a lot of backwards compatibility in existing code (wordpress loves it)
I, personally, would LOVE to see PHP break things on each release of a major version! I fail to see how upgrading could be painful, with a good changelog and the right E_DEPRECATED notices for a minor release or two, enough time to make it run in dev and even production, and working on deprecation notices as they appear in the log; this would make the language move much faster towards a better language. But I digress. On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 16:18, Marco Pivetta <ocram...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 4:09 PM Benjamin Morel <benjamin.mo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > We should never have added stdClass. >> >> Why not deprecate it then, instead of extending it and giving it more >> legitimacy? >> This would remove some of the "2 ways of doing the same thing", such as >> json_decode(). >> >> Ben >> > > This. > > `stdClass` can't die due to a lot of backwards compatibility in existing > code (wordpress loves it), but in any code I've written over the past 5 > years, the first thing I'd do with it is get rid of it as fast as possible. > > Making it more powerful will just make the problem bigger. > > Marco Pivetta > > http://twitter.com/Ocramius > > http://ocramius.github.com/ > >
