Re: Dragging the legacy users forward.

"Matteo Beccati" wrote in message news:54D883D2.5020009@beccati.com...

On 09/02/2015 10:49, Tony Marston wrote:

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.

I don't see any such RFC for PHP7. So it's probably worth if we avoid complaining about something that's not being proposed and certainly not going to happen.

There may not be an actual RFC for any of these *YET*, but the revolutionaries are still out there, plotting and scheming in their dark corners. They will be the ones who leap on an innocent-sounding feature and silently convert it to something more insidious. Just look at how "type hinting" has been turned into "type enforcement" as an example. -- Tony Marston