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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 23:07:57 +0100
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To: Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecation ideas for PHP 8
From: george.banyard@gmail.com (Girgias)

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On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 22:52, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote:

> Hi Girgias
>
> It seems good list in general.
> There would not be issues marking them as deprecated.
> "Deprecation" means "Soft deprecation", correct?
>
> Removing these aliases from PHP 8 is not good idea.
> Aliases should be removed when nobody cares about these aliases.
>
> For example, pg_loopen()/etc were there until nobody cares about these
> aliases.
> New names, pg_lo_open()/etc, were given in PHP4.x. These changes were
> documented since PHP 4.x.
>
> Regards,
>
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> Yasuo Ohgaki
> yohgaki@ohgaki.net
>

Hello Yasuo Ohgaki.

By Deprecation, I was indeed meaning that as of PHP 8 these function should
throw
E_DEPRECATED errors and be removed as of PHP 9 which would give plenty of
time
for people to adapt and upgrade their codebase.

Best regards

George P. Banyard

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