Re: Fix incorrect ternary '?' associativity for 7.0?
| From: | Lester Caine | Date: | Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:10:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Fix incorrect ternary '?' associativity for 7.0? | ||
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On 14/12/14 19:48, Rowan Collins wrote:
> 5.4 is a good example of what we *don't* want to do with minor versions. It consisted of a
> messy list of "those bits of the abandoned 6 which didn't quite make it into 5.3".
5.4 should have been '6' with a 5.4 that provided the very same buffer
that 5.7 is now envisaged to provide with PHP7. There is still a
substantial code base reliant on legacy features such as
register_globals which requires substantial work to move from 5.3 to 5.4
and it is stumbling blocks like these which are STILL holding up
adoption of later versions with ISP's.
Anything 'broken' in PHP7 must have a managed upgrade path helped by
warnings in 5.7, and I'd even go as far as to say that proposed patches
for things like this fix should include migration tools before being
merged! So both 5.7 and 7 are required to prevent a rerun of previous
chaos ...
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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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