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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 07:16:34 -0700
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To: Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal to deprecate create_function()
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/10/2013 15:02, Ryan McCue wrote:
>>
>> There's only one place I can think of in the plugin community where it's
>> still used a fair bit (widget registration), but we can work on
>> discouraging that and there's a fair amount of time until the next
>> release in any case.
>
>
> Don't forget we're only talking about deprecating, not removing it
> immediately, so discouraging usage rather than eliminating it is very much
> to the point.
>
> The absolute earliest this would actually be removed would be in 5.7,
> sometime in 2015. In fact, deprecating now but not expecting removal to be
> possible until 5.8 / 2016 seems reasonable to me.

I don't think we can ever remove it in 5.x.

-- 
Pierre

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