Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:107007
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <076701d56978$86020910$92061b30$@php.net> <CAKuGYLQA+XMHLGXPM4n_eEdp-d1=WzDE4Z4iLOzhD+4m83McaQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <467be4a0-dd8b-29d2-0b09-a3efd7fad56a@heigl.org> <CAJHtznwJLryZa1fWHXUJd5OS+9YKBjAj30fpN7sjR3By7a-DbQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAAfnsFU8B7gpd1=CpO+eDr7ogqDdFX7pZYNTT9rSoTDz+ybUQw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAfnsFU8B7gpd1=CpO+eDr7ogqDdFX7pZYNTT9rSoTDz+ybUQw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:00:04 -0500
Message-ID: <CANvqVdpiRRxO-9AvQJebvjKmL8454p7NLeirOZD7YKNhRzjjgg@mail.gmail.com>
To: Peter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com>, Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000009e900b05925fbfd1"
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Changing fundamental language behaviors
From: michael.babker@gmail.com (Michael Babker)

--0000000000009e900b05925fbfd1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 1:51 PM Peter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a dumb idea, since there clearly is a majority in favor of the
> change with these warnings and strictness and all that now... Why not
> making something like an LTS PHP 7.x where all the legacy code would
> work OK as long as practically possible and 8.x+ would be the future
> of what the developers want and not what business wants? One who won't
> upgrade due to the BC breaks also won't need the new features anyway
> very realistically.
>

Please don't tie the notion of LTS with the idea that a new major can break
BC at will or create larger scale breaks because the previous major has
extended support.  Sooner or later that will end up back at the ++ idea and
fragmentation encouraged by the language is a bad idea.

--0000000000009e900b05925fbfd1--