Re: Deprecation of func_get_args(), call_user_func_array() and related API

On 10 Oct 2014, at 21:43, Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10 October 2014 22:39, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote: > The call_user_func() and call_user_func_array() functions are used all over the place. I see > absolutely no gain, whatsoever in removing them and forcing developers to write their own userland > variants instead. > > --Kris > > > Of course they are, but that's obviously because any codebase written so far didn't > have PHP 5.6 support :-) > The main point here is moving forward and killing API that has no use-case anymore (and has to > be maintained). PHP 5.6 has been out for *less than two months*. Let’s say PHP 7 comes out in 18 months’ time, so June 2016. Even then, PHP 5.6 would have been around for less than 20 months. It is incredibly unreasonable to suggest that application developers should move to this new API and completely suspend usage of the previous one in such a short timespan (especially given how few people will have moved to 5.6 by then) for a non-security fix. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/