Re: Let's make a 5.7 release

On 15 Aug 2014, at 02:06, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: >> As PHP 7 may break backwards-compatibility, 5.7 gives us a chance to add deprecation >> warnings and such to help people prepare for 7. > > The updated multiple default blocks in a switch statement proposes > exactly this. Even if PHP 5.7 doesn't have any features I think it > would make the transition to PHP 7 easier. Right. The specification is a general motivation for 5.7 for me, actually. By specifying PHP we spot a lot of things that need fixing, and 5.7 is a good time to fix them or note that we’re going to fix them. That means we don’t have these loose ends lying around as specified behaviour for two or three years. It could also be the first version of PHP which would have the official specification and implementation released at the same time, I hope. :) -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/