Re: Dragging the legacy users forward.

"Matteo Beccati" wrote in message news:54D74C68.6070402@beccati.com...

On 08/02/2015 11:24, Tony Marston wrote:

Well said. If it is not possible to have a single codebase that runs in both PHP 5 *AND* PHP 7 then that will be a total disaster.

Of course you can have a single codebase running both on PHP5 and PHP7, unless you want to use PHP7-only features. But that doesn't mean that any codebase that currently runs on PHP5 will keep working on PHP7 without any changes. Most of the "modern" codebases probably will though.

But there is a vociferous group who want to change the language in a revolutionary way instead of an evolutionary way. They want to drop weak typing and replace it with strict typing, they want to replace a lot of function names with something "more consistent", and they want PHP to have a "purer" OO model so that instead of "string = strtoupper($string)" you must use "$string->toUpper". These revolutionaries want PHP 7 to be a different language, not an extension of the existing PHP 5 version. -- Tony Marston