Re: Compatibility problems with PHP 5

Hello Christian, Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 7:18:11 PM, you wrote: > Marcus Boerger wrote: >> I see all your concerns. But from my point of view pear has (of course) the >> problem that it is written in php4 and for php4. So PEAR needs to address >> the move towards php5 code anyway. An optional E_STRICT would help here >> wouldn't it? > [My concern is that if E_STRICT warns about var then PEAR developers are > tempted to change their code to PPP. This will screw PEAR users who are > (for whatever reason) stuck with PHP4.] > Ok, let's take a step back and ask why you want people to change var to > public in the first place: I assume you want to make people rethink how > they use member variables and promote safer programming. Am I right so > far? Now I have the feeling that if you deprecate var you simply make > people search and replace var by public globally. Nothing gained at all. > What you really want is that people can change var to PPP one by one > after carefully examining the usage of a variable. Having grep var * as > a tool to identify places to be examined is great, if I replaced all var > by public in the first place I lose this. And no, I don't believe in > forcing people to stop developing for a week and go over all their code > at once to migrate it to the new model. Maybe you see an analogy with my > __clone() reasoning here (-:C I agree, but wouldn't it be nice to have a tool at hand that can tell you if you have decided for all places at any time you want? -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net