Re: Proposal for serious BC compatibility aka language versioning
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:17:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal for serious BC compatibility aka language versioning | ||
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On 02/03/2013 02:11 PM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
> 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.
The whole concept of maintaining multiple personalities in the same
codebase is a complete non-starter. The complexity that leads to is
mindnumbing. There really isn't anything to discuss along these lines.
It will not happen.
-Rasmus