Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75338 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 44258 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2014 14:51:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Jul 2014 14:51:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.200 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.200 imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.200] ([192.64.116.200:52488] helo=imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 10/60-41998-C650CB35 for ; Tue, 08 Jul 2014 10:51:24 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 976D0B00081; Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:51:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap1.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap1.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id yLGa_8fBOBY1; Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:51:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from andreas-air.home (host86-172-51-137.range86-172.btcentralplus.com [86.172.51.137]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AE203B0007B; Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:51:14 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.2\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 15:51:00 +0100 Cc: Nikita Popov , PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <62D89ABF-75D7-42FE-B037-8537E408B537@ajf.me> References: To: Derick Rethans X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.2) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Uniform Variable Syntax From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 8 Jul 2014, at 15:48, Derick Rethans wrote: > I've just voted "no" for this, because it introduces a tiny BC break.=20= > Now, I realize this is a tiny BC break, but it is just *those* that=20 > drive people nuts when upgrading. There is so much non-public code - a=20= > cursor check of Symfony and ZF is not representative. It is a tiny BC break and it=92s for PHP NEXT (i.e 6 or 7), not 5.6. Why = not? It=92s a tiny change which will bother some people but make = everyone else=92s life easier. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/