Re: Ruminations on PHP 5++
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:18:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Ruminations on PHP 5++ | ||
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On 24/01/14 16:18, Lester Caine wrote:
Adam Harvey wrote:There is a lot that PHP's 5/6 transition can learn from Python's 2/3 transition. One might be, IMO, not to backport any new features. Otherwise people will simply keep using 2/5 instead of 3/6, due to the features also being available there. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/Adam, who loves starting a good flame war on a Friday.It would perhaps be nice to avoid the same mistakes that Python made when re-factoring 3.0 and not taking the rest of the user base with them. The level of breaking of BC needs to be carefully balanced? And I still think that 5.4 should have been a major hike which would have allowed a little more flexibility then.