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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Exceptions in the engine
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 27/10/2013 15:51, Nikita Popov wrote:

> Unless we have *concrete* plans regarding PHP 6 saying "this should go 
> into (a hypothetical, non-existing) PHP 6" is roughly equivalent to 
> just declining the feature.

I agree with that, and think it is a real problem, but there are two 
solutions: abandon the BC rules for 5.x releases, or make some concrete 
plans for 6.x.

Otherwise, the release process might as well not distinguish minor and 
major releases at all, and just define what is and isn't allowed in 
terms of BC for the foreseeable future of PHP.

> PHP 6 only makes sense to me if we're planning to actually do changes 
> with major BC impact. Not things like this RFC, but changes of basic 
> language semantics (like fixing the 0 == "foo" comparison and other 
> foundational issues).

Not every major release has to fix everything. An overhaul of error 
handling, in general, would seem like a good Big Feature to pin a major 
release on, just as Unicode strings would have been, had it gone ahead.

-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]