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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:54:54 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Status of "Make primitive types reserved words" in PHP 5.4
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

even more than vote, we can veto it due to a huge BC break (use of
primitive names inside a namespace, f.e.)

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:12 PM, David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> wrote:
> Hi Internals,
>
> just a heads up on the proposed "make primitives types reserved words"
> change. =A0the current votes are 36 to 21 in favor of implementing it.
>
> This change has a big impact on backward compatibility and will break
> existing code. Possible work arounds as discussed on the mailinglist
> have their own problems and inconsistencies, while still not solving
> all issues.
>
> Therefore Stas and I think this change is not ready for inclusion in
> PHP 5.4 and will not make it into the alpha 3.
>
> I think we all can agree here that with just a minimal lead in votes
> and not reaching a 2/3 majority and a lot of core devs rejecting it,
> it's better to leave it out at the moment.
>
> - David
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Pierre

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