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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:31:56 +0100
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Ruminations on PHP 5++
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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On Jan 24, 2014 5:18 PM, "Andrea Faulds" <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
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>
>
> 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.

That's the rule already. But requests to pusch one or another feature in
previous versions keep coming, it has to stop.

Cheers,
Pierre

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