Re: [RFC] Deprecations for 7.4
| From: | Bishop Bettini | Date: | Fri, 21 Jun 2019 18:50:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Deprecations for 7.4 | ||
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 2:46 PM Claude Pache <claude.pache@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Le 21 juin 2019 à 20:15, Bishop Bettini <bishop@php.net> a écrit :
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 13:54 Claude Pache <claude.pache@gmail.com
> <mailto:claude.pache@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> >
> > > Le 21 juin 2019 à 17:20, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net <mailto:
> kalle@php.net>> a écrit :
> > >
> > > Greetings Internals
> > >
> > > Nikita and I would like to open the discussion for the RFC:
> > > "Deprecations for 7.4", this RFC targets a larger set of various
> > > features targeting for deprecation in 7.4 with the intention of
> > > removal in PHP 8.0.
> > >
> > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_7_4 <
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_7_4>
> > >
> > > If there is no major objections to this RFC, then voting will begin in
> > > a 2 weeks time.
> >
> > I object to the following deprecations:
> >
> > ------------
> >
> > is_writeable().
> >
> > That “writeable” is “a spelling mistake” (as opposed to an “uncommon
> alternative spelling”) is an opinion that is not really probable.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> >
> > http://cerebriform.blogspot.com/2015/05/writable-is-wrong.html <
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> http://cerebriform.blogspot.com/2015/05/writable-is-wrong.html>
> >
> > "With this in mind, what about "writable" and its variant
> > "writeable"?
> While the dictionary says "writable" is correct, I consider that spelling
> harmful. Search for "table" and you'll hit "writable", which is
> undoubtedly a false positive."
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> Your spell checker has incorrectly “fixed” the last word of my message...
> —Claude
>
The irony's not lost on me. Yet, apologies: human error. I manually typed
it, as I was working on my mobile and deleted whilst replying.
s/probable/provable/g.