RE: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:30:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Knowles [mailto:alan@roojs.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 4:49 PM
> To: Gustavo Lopes; PHP Internals; Alan Knowles
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible
> context
>
> I was trying to vote against, for what it's worth.
>
> It's a major bc break with no obvious value, and what appears to be 7 days
> given to vote when every one is busy discussing a new property syntax.
>
> Traits is cute, but this was a amazing feature of the PHP language, not
> obvious,
> but it's pretty similar to Javascript, not sure why it would be so
> confusing.....
>
> Sorry for being contrary, but i was a but shocked that this was.going to
> be
> removed
Alan,
Can you explain why you think it's a major BC break? The RFC suggested that
the BC break would be minimal and that the likelihood a lot of people used
it is very low. If you think differently and share it it might put it in a
different light.
Zeev