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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] #[\Deprecated] attribute again v1.3
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:12:29 +0930
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 "Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]" <imsop.php@rwec.co.uk>
From: php-lists@koalephant.com (Stephen Reay)


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> On 26 Apr 2024, at 22:06, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] <imsop.php@rwec.co.uk> wro=
te:
>=20
> =EF=BB=BF
>=20
>> On 26 April 2024 09:40:57 BST, Mike Schinkel <mike@newclarity.net> wrote:=

>>=20
>> Given a lack of agreed definition for 'since' it appears you are using na=
rrow assumptions about the meaning of 'since' that led you to view 'since' a=
s useless.
>=20
> I can't see any ambiguity in the definition: "This function has been depre=
cated since version 7.2" seems a straightforward English sentence, meaning t=
hat before 7.2 it wasn't deprecated, and from that version onward it is.
>=20
> If there's some alternative reading of it, it's not that I'm assuming it d=
oesn't apply, it's that I'm completely unaware of what it might be.
>=20
> Regards,
> Rowan Tommins
> [IMSoP]
>=20

I'd even go so far as to suggest that "since" is so commonly understood that=
 we don't need the "This function has been " and "version " parts, and could=
 simply write: `#[Deprecated(since: '7.2')]` and have it be understood by hu=
mans and tooling alike.=20=