Re: Changing fundamental language behaviors
| From: | Michael Babker | Date: | Thu, 12 Sep 2019 19:00:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Changing fundamental language behaviors | ||
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 1:51 PM Peter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a dumb idea, since there clearly is a majority in favor of the
> change with these warnings and strictness and all that now... Why not
> making something like an LTS PHP 7.x where all the legacy code would
> work OK as long as practically possible and 8.x+ would be the future
> of what the developers want and not what business wants? One who won't
> upgrade due to the BC breaks also won't need the new features anyway
> very realistically.
>
Please don't tie the notion of LTS with the idea that a new major can break
BC at will or create larger scale breaks because the previous major has
extended support. Sooner or later that will end up back at the ++ idea and
fragmentation encouraged by the language is a bad idea.