Re: Deprecation ideas for PHP 8

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 23:28, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 7:08 AM Girgias <george.banyard@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 22:52, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote: > > > >> Hi Girgias > >> > >> It seems good list in general. > >> There would not be issues marking them as deprecated. > >> "Deprecation" means "Soft deprecation", correct? > >> > >> Removing these aliases from PHP 8 is not good idea. > >> Aliases should be removed when nobody cares about these aliases. > >> > >> For example, pg_loopen()/etc were there until nobody cares about these > >> aliases. > >> New names, pg_lo_open()/etc, were given in PHP4.x. These changes were > >> documented since PHP 4.x. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> -- > >> Yasuo Ohgaki > >> yohgaki@ohgaki.net > >> > > > > Hello Yasuo Ohgaki. > > > > By Deprecation, I was indeed meaning that as of PHP 8 these function > > should throw > > E_DEPRECATED errors and be removed as of PHP 9 which would give plenty of > > time > > for people to adapt and upgrade their codebase. > > > > This is good approach, too. > The alias system does not allow to get currently called function name w/o > overhead, AFAIK. i.e. It simply calls defined functions. > > Perhaps, add > > PHP_FALIAS_DEPRECATED() > > for it. > > Regards, > > -- > Yasuo Ohgaki > yohgaki@ohgaki.net I'm all for it if it reduces overhead. Best regards George P. Banyard