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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 23:30:25 +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 23:28, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 7:08 AM Girgias <george.banyard@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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,
> >>
> >> --
> >> 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.
> >
>
> This is good approach, too.
> The alias system does not allow to get currently called function name w/o
> overhead, AFAIK. i.e. It simply calls defined functions.
>
> Perhaps, add
>
> PHP_FALIAS_DEPRECATED()
>
> for it.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Yasuo Ohgaki
> yohgaki@ohgaki.net


I'm all for it if it reduces overhead.

Best regards

George P. Banyard

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