[PHP-DEV] Uniform Variable Syntax

2014-07-08 Thread Todd Ruth
On 8 Jul 2014, at 15:48, Derick Rethans wrote: > I've just voted "no" for this, because it introduces a tiny BC break. > Now, I realize this is a tiny BC break, but it is just *those* that > drive people nuts when upgrading. There is so much non-public code - a > cursor check of Symfony and ZF is

Re: [PHP-DEV] Uniform Variable Syntax

2014-07-08 Thread Andrea Faulds
On 8 Jul 2014, at 16:41, Todd Ruth wrote: > Given that this is a parser change, I wonder if there is hope of mitigating > the BC issues by providing an option to generate "new" code from "old" code. > Today, I can run "php -l" and php will tell me about syntax problems. If > php6 had a "php