Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:45:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist | ||
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At 00:26 16/08/2005, Pasha Zubkov wrote:
Zeev Suraski wrote: Finally, the main issue I'm going against is the 'we can now break things!' approach. I don't have a problem with all of the points Rasmus made, just some of them. And the biggest problem is the mindset of the thread that followed it. Zeev How long PHP must take care of old, very old scripts?!'For as long as they're in widespread use' sounds about right, as long as it doesn't significantly impair new applications. Many of the points on Rasmus' list were cleanups that won't significantly change the lives of developers who want to write new apps, but will just make the lives of legacy app maintainers more difficult. Almost by definition they fall into the category of nice to haves. That said, with a proper workaround for legacy apps, it's conceivable. Zeev