Compile PHP 7 to PHP 5.6

From: Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:32:17 +0000
Subject: Compile PHP 7 to PHP 5.6
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Is anyone aware of a tool for compiling PHP 7 code to PHP 5.6 code (or earlier)? Many of the features added from 5.3 to 7.0 appear to be syntactic conveniences which could be "desugared" or compiled to equivalent code for earlier PHP versions. I'm thinking on similar lines as Babel enables ecmascript 6 to be compiled to ecmascript 5. Thanks

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