Re: Proposal to deprecate create_function()

On 18/10/2013 15:02, Ryan McCue wrote:

There's only one place I can think of in the plugin community where it's still used a fair bit (widget registration), but we can work on discouraging that and there's a fair amount of time until the next release in any case.

Don't forget we're only talking about deprecating, not removing it immediately, so discouraging usage rather than eliminating it is very much to the point. The absolute earliest this would actually be removed would be in 5.7, sometime in 2015. In fact, deprecating now but not expecting removal to be possible until 5.8 / 2016 seems reasonable to me. (Above assumes the current release sequence continues, and PHP 6 isn't revived or something.) -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]