Re: A critique of PHP 6

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Ryan Panning wrote: > > > 4. PARAMETER ORDER. > > Two letters: BC. > > Changing variable order in an existing function is a big fat BC break. And > > if we put such a bomb into a new version, what would be the incentive for > > people to use it? So that apps would have to be shipped in 2 versions, for > > the old php and the new php? > > Is this something that could be fixed if it's moved to a namespace? The new > "alias" can have the "correct" order but original function can have the old > order. No, it would me having two implementations. Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug