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Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 11:06:10 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] NULL Coercion Consistency
From: landers.robert@gmail.com (Robert Landers)

On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 10:18 AM Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>
> On 08/05/2022 22:33, Bj=C3=B6rn Larsson via internals wrote:
> > It's not only ugly code ;) To make your program/application/library 8.1
> > compatible using that codepattern requires en effort, but brings close
> > to zero improvement, except being 8.1 compatible. So the net effect is
> > negative.
>
>
> Important correction: that change is to make your codebase PHP 9.0
> compatible, not PHP 8.1 compatible.
>
> That is the point of deprecation notices, to give advance warning that
> something will become incompatible in the future; when you act on that
> notice is up to you, and not in any sense about "compatibility" with the
> version that raises the notice.
>
> (For my thoughts on the rest of what you're saying, see every other
> message I've sent to this thread.)
>
> Regards,
>
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> Rowan Tommins
> [IMSoP]
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> Important correction: that change is to make your codebase PHP 9.0
> compatible, not PHP 8.1 compatible.

If you are writing library code, it is 8.1 compatible to avoid people
opening issues about spamming their logs.