Re: On BC and not being evil (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Integer Semantics)

> Every time we break BC — in either of the ways Derick said — we narrow > the subset of PHP 5 and PHP 7 that's available to people writing PHP > code that has to work on both. If we narrow it too far, it'll be too > unexpressive, or too hard to use, or just plain won't do something > that they'll need, and PHP 7 will risk becoming this decade's Perl 6: > the cautionary tale for what happens when you burn all the boats. I agree with this idea principle. I disagree that these RFCs are breaking so much backwards compatibility to create the next Perl 6.