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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 14:15:46 -0400
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To: Claude Pache <claude.pache@gmail.com>
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	Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecations for 7.4
From: bishop@php.net (Bishop Bettini)

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On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 13:54 Claude Pache <claude.pache@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> > Le 21 juin 2019 =C3=A0 17:20, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> a =
=C3=A9crit :
> >
> > Greetings Internals
> >
> > Nikita and I would like to open the discussion for the RFC:
> > "Deprecations for 7.4", this RFC targets a larger set of various
> > features targeting for deprecation in 7.4 with the intention of
> > removal in PHP 8.0.
> >
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_7_4
> >
> > If there is no major objections to this RFC, then voting will begin in
> > a 2 weeks time.
>
> I object to the following deprecations:
>
> ------------
>
> is_writeable().
>
> That =E2=80=9Cwriteable=E2=80=9D is =E2=80=9Ca spelling mistake=E2=80=9D =
(as opposed to an =E2=80=9Cuncommon
> alternative spelling=E2=80=9D) is an opinion that is not really probable.
>

Agreed.

http://cerebriform.blogspot.com/2015/05/writable-is-wrong.html

"With this in mind, what about "writable" and its variant "writeable"?
While the dictionary says "writable" is correct, I consider that spelling
harmful.  Search for "table" and you'll hit "wri*table*", which is
undoubtedly a false positive."

>

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