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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Ruminations on PHP 5++
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)



On 24/01/14 16:18, Lester Caine wrote:
> Adam Harvey wrote:
>> Adam, who loves starting a good flame war on a Friday.
> It would perhaps be nice to avoid the same mistakes that Python made
> when re-factoring 3.0 and not taking the rest of the user base with
> them. The level of breaking of BC needs to be carefully balanced?
> And I still think that 5.4 should have been a major hike which would
> have allowed a little more flexibility then.

There is a lot that PHP's 5/6 transition can learn from Python's 2/3 
transition. One might be, IMO, not to backport any new features. 
Otherwise people will simply keep using 2/5 instead of 3/6, due to the 
features also being available there.

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Andrea Faulds
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