Re: Re: [RFC Proposal] var keyword deprecation/removal
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:31:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [RFC Proposal] var keyword deprecation/removal | ||
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Hi!
> But is there a strong reason to keep it forever, especially considering its
Yes. It's the same reason - "no reason to remove". When we have action
which on one hand has no tangible benefit and on the other hand has
tangible harm, we should not do it.
> decline in usage? Perhaps by targeting it for removal in 8.0 we can
> mitigate the impact of such a BC break while taking one small step in
> improving the language over time.
By the time of 8.0 nothing would be different from today. 8.0 is not
some magic number by which old code ceases to exist.
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Stas Malyshev
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