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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecation ideas for PHP 8
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 30/01/2019 17:28, Peter Kokot wrote:
> This now also means that PHP is making its inconsistency a fact


The inconsistency IS a fact, and has been for more than 20 years. This 
isn't some new policy, banning something that used to be possible, it's 
a summary of something that's been discussed over and over again, and 
always reached the same conclusion.

The unfortunate truth is that the only way to truly fix most of these 
problems would be to create a completely new language, like Perl6; or at 
least a complete rewrite, like Python 3. As those two examples show, the 
result would be effort and community split between two forks, one that 
runs all the millions of PHP applications already written, and one that 
is theoretically nicer, but runs none of that old code. That just isn't 
a price worth paying.

Regards,

-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]