RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Binary String Deprecation

> -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Ackroyd [mailto:danack@basereality.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 8:22 PM > To: Pedro Magalhães <mail@pmmaga.net> > Cc: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Binary String Deprecation > > On 3 February 2017 at 12:47, Pedro Magalhães <mail@pmmaga.net> wrote: > > Hello internals. > > > > After a *very* quiet period of discussion, I have now opened the vote > > for the Binary String Deprecation. > > > I thought this RFC was likely to pass easily. > > It's always slightly unfortunate when RFCs are either accepted or rejected by > a small margin, particularly when there doesn't seem to have been any > voices against it. > > Please could anyone who voted no, illuminate the rest of us as to why voting > no was the correct option? I can't speak for others, but for me, it's simply because there's no reason to do it (remove it), while there may/might be a reason to keep it going forward. Keeping it comes at zero cost, and if we ever do need a binary string notation, it sounds more than likely that we'll pick this one. I see no value at removing it even if there's a small chance we'll need it again. I suspect that's why we also saw very little discussion - it's really a non-issue, but it goes both ways - I probably wouldn't add it if it wasn't in, but I don't see the logic in removing it now that it's in. My 2c. Zeev