Re: [RFC] PHP Attributes

On 4/24/2016 1:48 AM, Benoit Schildknecht wrote: > If I was a popular framework creator, this wouldn't stop me. I would > release two packages : one for 7.0, another one for 7.1. And the 7.0 one > would be the 7.1 one that has been processed through a script to remove > any <<>> syntax, or to transform it (if pre/post attributes instructions > were to be implemented in the core). > > Regards, > Ben. > > Le Sun, 24 Apr 2016 01:09:08 +0200, "Thomas Bley" <mails@thomasbley.de> > a écrit: > >> The <<>> syntax comes with the problem that previous versions cannot >> ignore it on parsing. >> So poeple write new frameworks for 7.0 which cannot be parsed in 5.x, >> then they write new frameworks for 7.1 which cannot be parsed with 7.0 >> and 5.x and so on. >> For companies staying on Linux distributions with long term support on >> 7.0, this is rather a nightmare for both users and framework maintainers. >> When choosing <<>> or any other non-backward compatible syntax for >> 7.1, there should be a patch for 7.0 to ignore the new syntax without >> parse errors. >> >> Regards >> Thomas >> > That is the nature of a feature release, you find many of those in any PHP feature release. Think of for instance yield, directly results in a parse error in older PHP versions. -- Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger

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