Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75342 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 54280 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2014 16:48:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Jul 2014 16:48:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.192.51 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.192.51 mail-qg0-f51.google.com Received: from [209.85.192.51] ([209.85.192.51:49350] helo=mail-qg0-f51.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CE/20-53052-7E02CB35 for ; Tue, 08 Jul 2014 12:48:39 -0400 Received: by mail-qg0-f51.google.com with SMTP id z60so5284286qgd.24 for ; Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:48:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CnbC7EEKLyvKqIaMDZP7BgC6SRY3fPZ1spRStGb6ziI=; b=wECWaOW00gWVL0bvBkp8LRgzQP1ltjTiafdQUF5o+JteLZnBjdyPfYMmGFJcnTNO9b iqe3PD1aaaY1gAcOCRufjBwN1gk/7ykjfFz5PvcYR/eMKDrTWUXZfMOuXkWw9HFIFFnl ENdMGI8xFevjMzYlC/MrVS/awTuK3+WXW5Nvom667Ui1dQ6LWuscuQJu2/jfNjL4nflf U/V55gxuzK4XWNRDZNBeu8A/umugBxI2uI/EkCMx6lpThD+1DaCLkt6P+1tq8v5oUoR1 Z+2UR8Y/ZplPBLyy2BO4oq4VjElODr+0yoA06WSoC8nULYsBAVaWAzrMOzmbaw6KJRLh vTyg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.30.73 with SMTP id c67mr57442979qgc.16.1404838116798; Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.28.183 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Jul 2014 09:48:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <62D89ABF-75D7-42FE-B037-8537E408B537@ajf.me> References: <62D89ABF-75D7-42FE-B037-8537E408B537@ajf.me> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 18:48:36 +0200 Message-ID: To: Andrea Faulds Cc: Derick Rethans , Nikita Popov , PHP internals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Uniform Variable Syntax From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye) On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Andrea Faulds wrote: > > On 8 Jul 2014, at 15:48, Derick Rethans wrote: > >> I've just voted "no" for this, because it introduces a tiny BC break. >> Now, I realize this is a tiny BC break, but it is just *those* that >> drive people nuts when upgrading. There is so much non-public code - a >> cursor check of Symfony and ZF is not representative. > > It is a tiny BC break and it=E2=80=99s for PHP NEXT (i.e 6 or 7), not 5.6= . Why not? It=E2=80=99s a tiny change which will bother some people but mak= e everyone else=E2=80=99s life easier. Voted +1, obviously for having that in php6, not 5.7. This tiny BC is then more than OK. Cheers, --=20 Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org