Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 7.1

Hi! > I've created a bulk-deprecation RFC for PHP 7.1: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_7_1 > I like dropping php_errormsg. Last time I tried to make error suppression work more efficiently this was a major problematic thing AFAIR, and in general using magic variables that pop out of nowhere is not a good thing. For __autoload I guess since it's incompatible with superior SPL mechanism it has to go too. I'm not sure about create_function() - while it is old, I don't see why we should break working code using it just because better option is available. With rand functions, I don't think we need to touch them. For some applications, low-key randomness is just fine - if you need to shuffle array of 20 elements or randomize unit test to ensure you're not testing same value all the time, low-quality randomness is completely fine. For other applications, there are superior solutions and everybody who needs them already uses them, but again I see no value in removing those functions. It would only cause more breakage and make adoption of new versions (already horrible) even slower. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com