Re: Remove old PHP6 forward compatibility

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > Agreed. PHP6 dying on the vine doesn't establish that we'll never have baked-in unicode support. Better to keep this around to improve compatibility when/if we revisit this. -Sara