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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 20:06:33 +0100
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To: Michael Babker <michael.babker@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com>, Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Changing fundamental language behaviors
From: oludonsexy@gmail.com (Olumide Samson)

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On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 8:00 PM Michael Babker <michael.babker@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Not sure you are really seeing the goal...

Why is LTS not a good idea?
And, if the majority want this or that, can we just blow everything into
full dictatorship where i can host my fork of PHP doing uncountable
unwanted things i can call it..?

Any which way, i think the majority of us are tired of writing bad codes,
but since the language is allowing it we don't have choices than to spend
some hours or weeks later debugging the wrong or right line we did that
last "big mistake", who knows there might be another line smiling coz i
haven't detected it...

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