Re: [RFC] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants
| From: | Christoph M. Becker | Date: | Wed, 04 Jul 2018 17:00:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On 04.07.2018 at 17:02, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 5:12 PM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:03 AM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Are there any other opinions on this topic or the RFC in general? I'm a bit
>> surprised that there are so little comments after the somewhat explosive
>> discussion last time around.
>
> Personally I think that the grounds for deprecating this particular feature
> isn't very strong. Yes, we'd probably not do it this way if we were
> starting from scratch, but is it that bad for us to make the migration to
> PHP 8 a bit more difficult? I'm not sure. So I'm probably -1 on it, but
> at the same time I don't think it's bad enough to warrant active
> 'campaigning' against this RFC :)
In my humble opinion, the listed motivations[1] are more than sufficient
to get rid of this supposedly rarely used feature.
[1]
<https://wiki.php.net/rfc/case_insensitive_constant_deprecation#motivation>
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Christoph M. Becker