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Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:40:56 +0200
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To: Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 6.0 And Moving Forward
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to address the most obvious issues I see with moving on to PHP 6.
>
> First, there has already been a lot of discussion on PHP 6 since as
> early as 2007, if I recall correctly. Albeit, a lot of this has died
> down over the years, but there are probably still a lot of books and
> people out there with misconceptions about PHP 6 and this could lead
> to further confusion. I believe it's important to try and make any
> future transitions into PHP easier.

PHP 6 never existed, we never did any release, I see no appealing but
pointless marketing reason to skip this version. I see however many
very good reasons not to skip it.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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