Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75349 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38321 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2014 21:05:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jul 2014 21:05:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=julienpauli@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=julienpauli@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.220.174 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: julienpauli@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.220.174 mail-vc0-f174.google.com Received: from [209.85.220.174] ([209.85.220.174:59464] helo=mail-vc0-f174.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CC/C1-17709-D9EADB35 for ; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 17:05:34 -0400 Received: by mail-vc0-f174.google.com with SMTP id hy4so8483415vcb.19 for ; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:05:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=W3xmh3Fl+XGv0jfSbmmtI/HvX0trFIpEBLTQQw9ZLFQ=; b=XwFAaCQRTR1UIIJkGLPLW2xdYDU1n8EXB2TK73XeBWP0rFkw74aLIgDdhxoKZDNPpl eYyICRQVJ9mXEEDtvvozM8+MkC/MBBpqmAwtnBWhUojVgDIGRqVzbzPe021s3QPoh8HF p4shlICERgmxzZ3zQEq/GLLzn40TXx0Hi/qhtPVWraY81a+gQ9R5ZBlKO4SobNM0cabN g85RaImyx1rm7FeNUSCUuNPmgPCoBPASKpxN97Q9NJF6qe0MIyqeQsItJy8Jle0gDj3B JCfN0Ss7FpNoiVBR7KA4DX0LcvtkTKtMbYjLBnuOcwdfd40u5JMfOpuUJ7FYlx+OUvut VcOw== X-Received: by 10.52.144.235 with SMTP id sp11mr18351204vdb.25.1404939931486; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:05:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: julienpauli@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.81.68 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Jul 2014 14:04:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <62D89ABF-75D7-42FE-B037-8537E408B537@ajf.me> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 23:04:51 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6MYrkkiaLW8GAD9o14HlkpSzb5w Message-ID: To: Kris Craig Cc: Pierre Joye , Andrea Faulds , 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: jpauli@php.net (Julien Pauli) On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Kris Craig wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Pierre Joye wrote: > >> 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 make e= veryone >> 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, >> -- >> Pierre >> >> @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > Also +1. Major version increments always have BC breaks, and not just ti= ny > ones, either. +1 as well. For a next major, every tip making things cleaner is welcome, and this is little BC. Julien