Re: PHP 8 next?

Hi Levi, On 24 June 2018 22:26:24 BST, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: >> Are there particular breaking changes that you think would be ready >in 2 years time that wouldn't be ready in 1? > >Certainly. Large breaks require multi-year planning and multiple >releases to add migration paths, documentation and training, >deprecations, etc, before the change itself happens. If PHP 8 is the >next release then we've missed the window for deprecations and >warnings (mostly; feature freeze is imminent). That makes sense. :) What do you think about planning 8.0 for 2020, which gives us a year to build those plans into 7.4? I think it would be good to set a specific target, even if only approximately, so that we don't just have the same discussion in a year's time. >I wish our symbol tables were merged. If they were they we could >nicely solve some issues... I'm not entirely sure what deprecation would look like for this, but I guess that makes it a perfect example of something that needs time to plan. :) Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]