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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] On BC and interfaces
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)

Hi Stas,

You know, it's not always possible to get new features or performance 
boosts without API change. It's one of the reason why we postpone such 
changes for major releases. But, I agree that even in major releases API 
shouldn't be changed without significant reasons, and we should keep 
compatibility if possible.

BTW I even think that PHP doesn't need most of recently added features. 
It's a monster already and we make it more complicated with each 
release. As these new features are needed only to few people, they are 
not tested enough. Then, after release, we found that something doesn't 
work as expected, and we have to fix design mistakes with ugly hacks. 
Traits is a good example.

Thanks. Dmitry.

On 09/04/2012 11:15 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Given many discussions on the list about changing stuff in PHP, I'd like
> to bring everybody's attention to comment by Linus Torvalds in this
> topic: https://plus.google.com/115250422803614415116/posts/hMT5kW8LKJk
>
> It talks about Linux kernel and discussion has next to nothing to do
> with PHP, but generic point about keeping the interfaces and importance
> of not serving one use case I think very important for all widely used
> platforms equally. I think the opinion of the author of one of the most
> successful platforms in recent history may be interesting to consider.
>