Re: Remove old PHP6 forward compatibility
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:12:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Remove old PHP6 forward compatibility | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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Hi!
> Back when PHP6 was actually a thing, we added the 'b' string literal
> prefix and the (binary) cast to be forward compatible with PHP6,
> however since the entire unicode strings part were dropped, these are
> no longer needed.
>
> I think its safe to remove these 2, and take it as a lession learned,
> to safely and selectively added forward compatibile features.
Why remove it? I'm not sure what removing it would improve.
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Stas Malyshev
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