Re: NULL Coercion Consistency

On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 10:18 AM Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/05/2022 22:33, Björn Larsson via internals wrote: > > It's not only ugly code ;) To make your program/application/library 8.1 > > compatible using that codepattern requires en effort, but brings close > > to zero improvement, except being 8.1 compatible. So the net effect is > > negative. > > > Important correction: that change is to make your codebase PHP 9.0 > compatible, not PHP 8.1 compatible. > > That is the point of deprecation notices, to give advance warning that > something will become incompatible in the future; when you act on that > notice is up to you, and not in any sense about "compatibility" with the > version that raises the notice. > > (For my thoughts on the rest of what you're saying, see every other > message I've sent to this thread.) > > Regards, > > -- > Rowan Tommins > [IMSoP] > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Important correction: that change is to make your codebase PHP 9.0 > compatible, not PHP 8.1 compatible. If you are writing library code, it is 8.1 compatible to avoid people opening issues about spamming their logs.