Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:119918 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 84246 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2023 13:41:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO php-smtp4.php.net) (45.112.84.5) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 11 Apr 2023 13:41:36 -0000 Received: from php-smtp4.php.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by php-smtp4.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A26180548 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:41:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on php-smtp4.php.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-ASN: AS30827 82.113.144.0/20 X-Spam-Virus: No X-Envelope-From: Received: from xdebug.org (xdebug.org [82.113.146.227]) by php-smtp4.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [185.69.145.133]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F3E5910C050; Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:41:33 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:41:33 +0100 To: internals@lists.php.net, Jeffrey Dafoe , php internals User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: References: <8abbed60-5569-4eca-ad12-957877feed9b@app.fastmail.com> Message-ID: <32BD2279-5764-4F85-AF64-A8856EAEBB54@xdebug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Future stability of PHP? From: derick@xdebug.org (Derick Rethans) On 11 April 2023 14:33:27 BST, Jeffrey Dafoe wrote: >> was something introduced in a time that the code being written using it= has >> 100% test coverage and static analysers protecting it=2E It's easier fo= r me to deal >> with any BC breaks of PHP 7=2E1 or higher than it is to deal with depre= cations of >> PHP 5=2E6 or lower=2E > >Essentially the same thing here=2E Removal of dynamic properties will be = the next big one for my team=2E It's the deprecations that hit huge swaths = of code without really offering much benefit that are annoying=2E So turn off the deprecation warnings for now=2E They're just a heads up th= at behaviour is going to change in the future, with PHP 9=2E I doubt you'd prefer not to be aware of the change well in advance=2E cheers Derick