Re: Proposal for serious BC compatibility aka language versioning

If you mean <?php3 then well, I was not here but maybe we could learn from the mistakes and get a better implementation? I have some ideas, but first I'd be glad to learn why it was a mess. On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > On 02/03/2013 02:03 PM, Karoly Negyesi wrote: >> Well, fixing a segfault, adding a new function or method as it oft >> happened in PHP 5.3 is only breaking forwards compatibility not >> backwards -- if you have code that ran on PHP 5.3.4 it'll run on >> 5.3.5. The reverse is not true which causes some headaches to Drupal >> developers but it's not relevant to this discussion. >> >> So, what about adding a version string to the opening <?php tag so >> that you can fix bugs while not breaking BC :P ? > > We had that in the past and it was a mess. We are not going to make that > mistake again. > > -Rasmus >