Re: Deprecation ideas for PHP 8
| From: | Rowan Collins | Date: | Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:50:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Deprecation ideas for PHP 8 | ||
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On 30/01/2019 17:28, Peter Kokot wrote:
This now also means that PHP is making its inconsistency a factThe inconsistency IS a fact, and has been for more than 20 years. This isn't some new policy, banning something that used to be possible, it's a summary of something that's been discussed over and over again, and always reached the same conclusion. The unfortunate truth is that the only way to truly fix most of these problems would be to create a completely new language, like Perl6; or at least a complete rewrite, like Python 3. As those two examples show, the result would be effort and community split between two forks, one that runs all the millions of PHP applications already written, and one that is theoretically nicer, but runs none of that old code. That just isn't a price worth paying. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]