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To: Adi Nita <adi.nita@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] A critique of PHP 6
From: peter.e.lind@gmail.com (Peter Lind)

On 21 April 2010 11:46, Adi Nita <adi.nita@gmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot agree with the idea of preferring
> working applications to good working applications.

Except that's not what's at stake. The application does not become one
bit better or worse by using an updated function that's more
consistent with other functions. The *language* is what might become
better or worse by the change, not any applications. The *side-effect*
however, is that you're forcing incredible amounts of developers to
fix code if they want to move it to a newer version of PHP. With the
risk of having tons of code break or just never migrated to newer
versions of PHP with all the problems which that creates.
 A better option would probably be to introduce functions that
essentially do exactly the same as the old ones but consistently with
the other functions. Then deprecate the old functions slowly - no
instant BC break and people can migrate to the new proper functions in
good time.

Regards
Peter

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